Chronic pain information for healthcare professionals

• British Pain Society resources
• Faculty of Pain Medicine
  • The following sections contain helpful information:
    • Opioids Aware (everything you need to know about opioids)
    • FPM learning (includes the e-Pain modules)
    • For patients (medications and pain procedures)
• Live well with pain: resources for practitioners.

• Royal College of Physicians: How to diagnose Fibromyalgia:
• Hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome:
  • Hypermobility Syndromes Association
  • Ehlers-Danlos support UK GP toolkit
• The Ehlers-Danlos Society

• Dysautonomia
  • POTS UK: POTS for medics
  • Dysautonomia International: For physicians
  • NASA lean test (10 minute ‘Stand’ test for autonomic dysfunction)
• Mast Cell Activation Syndrome:
  • Mast Cell Action
  • Mast Cell Activation Syndrome a primary care guide
• Adult Autism and ADHD
  • Adult Neurodevelopmental Service
• Long Covid
  • International Post Covid and Post Infection Conditions Society
• ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  • The ME Association

Clinical shadowing

Would you like to learn more by sitting in with a clinician for a session? Please contact the service with your request.

kentchft.chronicpainpatients@nhs.net