Integrated Pain Management Health Integration Team review of 2014-15

Professor David Wynick, Director of the Integrated Pain Management Health Integration Team (HIT), gives an update on the HIT’s activities in 2014-15.

The Integrated Pain Management (IPM) HIT, established in
spring 2014, aims to provide a fully integrated, multi-disciplinary, lifespan
clinical service for chronic pain across the Bristol and Bath area. Over the
past year, we have increased our membership to include representatives from clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and community pharmacy, as well as maintaining
a core of highly specialised clinicians and researchers.

We’ve submitted a proposal to the local CCGs to pilot a multi-disciplinary
community assessment pain clinic. We’re exploring developing a single clinical
pain database, using an agreed core dataset of chronic pain diagnoses and
medications, enabling demographic and outcome data to be captured across all
HIT member trusts.

We are developing a training prospectus for qualified health
professionals and academics, to showcase courses and events hosted by HIT
members. The national specialist chronic pain service in Bath regularly hosts a
pain forum for professionals, and IPM HIT will be supporting these events in
the near future. We’re also exploring opportunities for medical trainees.

We are committed to setting up a patient and public
involvement (PPI) group. We are working on developing this group, and aim to
host a patient forum event within the next 9-12 months.