Breaking the Cycle: A New Approach to Effectively Manage Chronic Pain in Primary Care

The Challenge Chronic pain patients often require complex, long-term support that primary care is not currently equipped to provide effectively. With 30% – 50% of GP caseloads consisting of chronic pain patients, GPs and First Contact Practitioners (FCPs) face difficulty managing these patients due to the complexities involved. The existing structure and stretched resources leave […]

Deprescribing Initiative

Pain Specialist Health and Wellbeing Coaching to Support Deprescribing in Primary Care Pure Physiotherapy have been working in partnership with Doncaster North PCN providing First Contact Physiotherapy (FCP) services since 2020. The PCN leadership team identified deprescribing and the management of persistent pain as a key priority and set out to address the problem with […]