| Officers |
Chris Barker, Chair
Martin Johnson, Vice Chair
Dee Burrows, Secretary
Sonja Biggs, Treasurer
Val Conway, Immediate Past Chair
Hanlie Theron, Committee Member
Ann Taylor, Committee Member
Geraldine Granath, Patient Liaison Committee Representative
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| BPS Council Member
Liaison |
Dr Martin Johnson |
| Nature of SIG |
Primary and Community Care |
Description
of Activities
and Scientific Focus |
- To contribute to the objectives of the British Pain
Society and the International Association for the
Study of Pain on mattersrelating to pain management
in primary and community care.
- To improve knowledge and understanding of pain management
and its outcomes in primary and community care.
- Through sharing best practice, to enhance the skills
of those involved in delivering pain services and
pain management in primary and community care.
- To organise meetings, seminars and workshops on
aspects of pain management in primary and community
care.
- To establish and maintain links with other professional
organisations and societies related to pain management
in primary and community care.
- To maintain a register of resources relating to
primary and community pain management for health care
practitioners and people with pain.
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| Any other
news |
Primary & Community Care SIG
Launch Meeting
Challenges and how to overcome
them
Saturday 9th April 2011
BMA House, Tavistock Square, London
The Primary & Community Care Special Interest Group
held its launch meeting chaired by Dr Mark Porter and
Professor Richard Langford.
The meeting included the following lectures:
- Opioids and Chronic Pain
- Pain Management in community - a UK perspective
- Patient Pathways
- Pain education for GP's, Nurses and AHP's
- Pain and its effects on sleep
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