STAPG Links - Links to Resources

The South Thames Acute Pain Group (STAPG) has produced this page of useful links. If you would like to suggest a site please email inge.bateman@wsht.nhs.uk

Pain talk
The national discussion forum and community for UK Healthcare Professionals with an interest in acute, chronic, or palliative Pain Management.
http://www.pain-talk.org.uk

The Pain Web
This site contains useful information, which will be of great interest to health professionals. It will include details of forthcoming meetings and reports on those meetings as they take place.
http://www.thepainweb.com

PROSPECT
A unique collaboration between surgeons and anaesthesiologists on procedure specific pain management.
http://www.postoppain.org

UK The Pain Network for Nurses
The pain network is an organisation for nurses, healthcare workers and patients with an interest in the treatment of pain and pain management.
http://www.painnetwork.co.uk

Prodigy
The Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) Service is a web-based service providing healthcare professionals with readily accessible and easy to read knowledge enabling them to make evidence based decisions about healthcare. The service will principally utilise secondary research, evidence from standard NHS resources such as NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), and a range of quality peer-reviewed systematic reviews such as Cochrane systematic reviews, using primary research and expert option where appropriate.
http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk

Pain Relief Foundation
The Pain Relief Foundation is a UK charity which funds research into
the causes and treatment of human chronic pain and is concerned
with education of doctors and nurses in pain management. This site provides essential, comprehensive and independent information for health professionals about the use of drugs in palliative care.
http://www.palliativedrugs.com/