STAPG Links - Links to Specialist Areas

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

BackCare
An independent national charity registered as the National Back Pain Association (charity number 256751) that helps people manage and prevent back pain.
http://www.backpain.org

Pain Research Institute
The Institute, whilst part of the Department of Neurological Science, is closely associated with the Pain Clinic at the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery (WCNN) NHS Trust. The pain clinic sees over 3000 patients each year.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/pri

World Health Organisation Cancer Pain
Cancer Pain Release is the publication of the World Health Organization global communications program to improve cancer pain control and palliative and supportive care. Cancer Pain Release is dedicated to keeping a worldwide and multidisciplinary audience in the health professions and government abreast of relevant information and developments in clinical medicine, education and policy.
http://www.whocancerpain.wisc.edu/

The Concice Guidance To Good Practice
The guideline, assessment of pain in older people, is designed to allow clinicians to make rapid, informed decisions based wherever possible on synthesis of the best available evidence and expert consensus gathered from practising clinicians.
(poster http://www.bgs.org.uk/Publications/Clinical Guidelines/pain concise laminate WEB.pdf).

http://www.bgs.org.uk/Publications/Clinical Guidelines/pain concise guidelines WEB.pdf

The Royal College of Anaesthetists
Risk information leaflets for patients covering risks after anaesthetic epidurals and peripheral nerve blocks, hosted by the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
http://www.rcoa.ac.uk/index.asp?PageID=836