Managing Chronic Pain with Pure Unity Health

In THC’s primary care, we provide resources for primary care leaders, and the focus of this blog is chronic pain.

The management of chronic pain services has become a growing approach to primary care networks (PCN), and for a good reason. Chronic pain is a complex problem that often leads to:

When I spoke with Adam Davies, the National Health and Welfare Service Pure unity Health, We discuss your approach to chronic pain management.

• You are exploring ways to support patients with chronic pain.

• You are curious about how a chronic pain service could be on your PCN.

• He would like to understand how to trace the patient’s progress and the results within a chronic pain service.

  Let’s jump!

Chronic pain is not something that can be addressed in a single appointment. It requires time and a personalized and holistic approach.

This is where the Pure United Health service model sacrifices something different for PCNs.

The service is led by health and well -being coaches, who are accredited through the Personalized Attention Institute (PCI) and receive additional specialized training in chronic pain. Many of the coaches have personal or family experience with chronic pain, which helps them connect more significant with patients.

This is not a short or secondary care intervention. It is designed to sit within primary care, with fast access, minimum administrative steps and long -term support for those who need it.

The service can be delivered:

• Remotely (by phone or video call)

• Face to face (where space allows)

• As a hybrid model (a mixture of both)

Each PCN adapts the service to practically meet the needs of its local population. For example:

• A PCN can focus on patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia

• Another can point to those in long -term recipes, such as high dose coodamol

The Pure model is structured around three key resources:

Patients receive support to understand recent developments in pain science. This helps reduce fear, challenge myths and generate confidence on what is possible when you live with chronic pain.

Patients are encouraged to reflect on what matters to them, whether walking to their dog, socialization again or handle an outbreak with greater confidence. Then co-create a personalized care plan with their coach.

This includes support with sleep, diet, physical activity and the construction of social connections. It’s not about “fixing” pain, it’s about helping people live better with him.

Patients receive one -to -one training, and in some areas, they can also attend Pain coffeesThey are informal group sessions in which patients within the PCN share what works and support each other.

PCNs can send patients directly, but many also choose to work with pure physiotherapy to execute proactive searches. These may include:

• Patients in repeated recipes for pain relief.

• Patients with conditions such as Fibromyalgia.

• Frequent assistants with pain -related problems.

The objective is to reach patients who could not otherwise be referred to or who could have stopped asking for help.

The service works completely within primary care and complements other roles, such as head doctors, clinical pharmacists and social prescription link workers.

Adam described how patients are often directly referred to or proactively after a search. And because most appointments are virtual, there is no need to worry about the clinical space, face to face sessions can be organized where necessary.

PCN managers may want to ask: “How do we know that this way is working?

Pure physiotherapy provides results data every month, which includes:

• Pain self -efficacy questionnaire (PSEQ) Scores: showing an average 50–60% Improvement. (The significant minimum change is considered 9-14%)

• Drug reduction – In an audit, 93% or patients reduced or stopped their medication when they supported themselves with a header.

• GP assistance – 80–90% If the patients did not visit their header in the entire duration of the road, and this was later sustained.

This service is more effective on PCN than:

• Have a cohort or significant patients who live with chronic pain.

• They are open to use coaching to complement clinical attention.

• It can commit to regularly refer to patients to the service.

Adam and I emphasize the importance of support from the entire network by implementing a new route.

If only a person (for example, the clinical director) is defending the service, it can be difficult for the coach to gain traction.

Successful services are those in which GPS, practice managers and broader personnel are involved and involved.

If your PCN is not currently chronic prioritization pain, or if the equipment prefers an approach led by unplug without exploring medications, this service may not be adequate at this time.

Chronic pain remains a key area of ​​demand in general practice, partly in relation to the prescription and pressures of the appointments.

Pure physiotherapy focus tasks offer a way option to help patients living with chronic pain. This type of route won the appropriate adjustment for each network.

But if your PCN is exploring new ways to support patients living with chronic pain and wants to offer something beyond medications, it may be worth talking to Adam and Pure’s team.

The primary care of THC is a award -winning specialization of health consulting in the management of the Primary Care Network and the creator of the Podcast Business of Healthcare. We have supported more than 200 PCN through interim management, training and consulting.

Our experience covers project management and business development in public and private sectors. Our work has been published in the London Journal of Primary Care, and we have written about 250 blogs that share ideas about primary care networks.

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