The Chronic Pain HIT held its Spring Webinar with an incredible list of speakers covering a wide range of topics and working happening within the network. Speakers included:
- Penny Gane – Chair, Bristol Women’s Commission – ‘Working in partnership to tackle health inequalities affecting women’
- Dr Hazel O’Dowd – Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Pain Clinic Team NBT – ‘Introducing Pain Information Sessions into Primary Care Pilot Project’
- Dr Pascale Harrison – Long Term Conditions Lead, Vita Minds IAPT Talking Therapy Service BNSSG – ‘How Vita Minds Talking Therapy Service (IAPT) support those living with Chronic Pain’
- Michelle Farr – Research Fellow, NIHR ARC West and University of Bristol – ‘Handing over instead of ending pain management programmes: How peer-led meetings build on positive gains’
- Kate Ryan – Senior Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist NHS BNSSG CCG and Michelle Jones – Principal Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist NHS BNSSG CCG – ‘Optimising medications and self-help guides’