Provided for people registered to GP practices within, Nottingham West, Nottingham North and East, Rushcliffe, Newark and Sherwood, and Mansfield and Ashfield Clinical Commissioning Groups.

An innovative community pathway where a multidisciplinary team of specialist clinicians help patients with spinal and other persistent pain conditions, as well as patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), to get the right diagnosis and treatment, manage their symptoms better and improve their quality of life.

The service provides holistic patient centred care within a biopsychosocial framework, with individual treatment or group work, depending on the needs of the patient. A highly skilled cognitive behavioural therapist (CBT) provides supervision for all staff working with local substance misuse services and IAPT providers to ensure the mental wellbeing of our patients is looked after. Regular medication reviews take place to optimise analgesia. There is access to a complex opioid clinic that provides a link to substance misuse services.

It is the first chronic pain service in the UK to employ a wellbeing practitioner to facilitate the self care part of the pathway. The wellbeing practitioner promotes self-management, forged partnerships with local voluntary groups, undertaken goal setting, exercise referral schemes and weight loss programmes.

The pain pathway is underpinned by an experienced administration team, which network with other healthcare colleagues, including the GP practices, pharmacists and physiotherapists. The team arrange the numerous clinics (see below) helping ensure cases are seen as soon as possible and closer to home.

The service has resulted in:-

• More chronic pain management cases provided in the local community, with referrals to hospital greatly reduced.
• Increased use of physiotherapy, exercise and psychological therapies in the care of pain management
• 50% reduction in the use of injections and reduced prescriptions of drugs
• Waiting times have been reduced by a third during 2018.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME Service

The services can be accessed via your local GP. To know more about the pain service please contact 03000 830 000 option 1 or option 5 for more information about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) service. 

If you are a patient and have attended the Community Pain Pathway recently and would like to leave feedback regarding this service, please click on the link below to the Pain Pathway Friends and Family questionnaire.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/89WS59K 

The pain service is currently provided from a wide range of venues across Nottinghamshire. The venues are listed below.

Pain Clinics

Eastwood Primary Care Centre, Eastwood

Newthorpe Medical Centre, Newthorpe

Oaks Medical Centre, Beeston

Hickings Lane Medical Centre, Stapleford

Castle Healthcare Practice, Wilford Lane, West Bridgford

Bay Therapy Centre, Lady Bay, West Bridgford

Highcroft Surgery, Arnold town centre

Magnolia Therapy Centre, Mansfield Road, Carrington

Bulwell Riverside Health Centre, Bulwell

Hucknall Orthopaedics – Hucknall

Balderton Primary Care Centre, Balderton

Abbey Medical Group, Blidworth

Kirkby Primary Care Centre, Kirkby in Ashfield

Forest Medical, Rosemary Health Centre, Mansfield

Southwell Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic , Southwell

Crown Medical Centre, Forest Town

Brierley Park Medical Centre, Huthwaite

Nottingham Road Clinic, Mansfield

Rushcliffe Arena – Wellbeing Practitioner  only