Date: Sunday 8 April 2018
Time: 8.30 am - 12.30 pm
So how can you support patients with pain to self-manage in a time-based consultation? This is a question most healthcare providers ask me. It is possible, but you may need some extra skills.
Overview of the Pain Toolkit half-day workshop:
This Pain Toolkit workshop is ideal for all healthcare professionals who work in Community, Primary, Secondary and Social Care. It can help to increase their awareness of the benefits of pain self- management.
Click here to download the workshop flyer
Speaker: Peter Moore
My story is very typical of that of a pain patient. I was, like many pain patients looking for that magic bullet to take away the pain. Managing my pain was like playing a game of snakes and ladders – a game of luck. Most days melted into the next and I have a very poor pain self-manager. I did not exercise or generally look after my body, I ate all the wrong foods and when something went wrong with it, I expected the doctor to fix me.
My Turning Point!
In July 1996 I attended the INPUT Pain Management Programme (PMP) London. It was described to me as a programme that could help me to increase my confidence and mobility and provide me with the pain toolkit of skills to self-manage my pain. I thought this was finally something that could help me turn the corner and help me live with my pain. I have been back in full time work since 2000 and to date I have never had a day off sick.
Back to work
From 2000 – 2002 I worked for BackCare
Prior to joining BackCare I wrote a 6-week back self-management programme called Think-Back. During my time with BackCare I ran the Think-Back programme for many of their member groups, and for local NHS in Essex.
From 2002 – 2011 I worked for the NHS Expert Patients Programme, first as a Senior Trainer and then as a Business Development Manager. While there, I was asked by the Department of Health to develop a add-on module for back pain, which was then developed into a dedication 6-week course for people who lived with persistent pain
2011 – Current. I now solely work on the Pain Toolkit concept, providing educational support for both patients and health care professionals, promoting pain self-management both in the UK, Europe and around the world.
Pain Toolkit
I authored the Pain Toolkit with the help of Dr. Frances Cole; a simple patient booklet which has been supported by the Department of Health and now used extensively in the UK and adapted for, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Since 2009 950,000 copies have been printed and now in circulation throughout the UK. They have also been translated into 14 different languages. It was also adapted for teenagers and young people called My Pain Toolkit.
Pain Toolkit for people in secure units
In February 2015 I adapted the Pain Toolkit for people with pain who are secure units and is now be distributed to Prisons and other secure units.
Pain Toolkit Workshop
The Pain Toolkits booklets have now been developed into learning workshops for healthcare professionals and patients. www.paintoolkit.org/workshop
Your Pain Toolkit
I have written several pain and self-management books my latest is the Your Pain Toolkit, a workbook both patients, health care professionals and the families can use together to support and promote self-management teamwork.
Other versions of the Toolkit concept
Early in 2015 I adapted My Pain Toolkit (with the help of Alita Howlett from, Australia) into a version for young people with asthma called My Asthma Toolkit.
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