164126 - From acute to chronic pain - options please!

Speciality Classification

General Practice ( GP ) / Family Medicine

Location

Online

Delivery

Face to face

Duration

2 hours

To provide a systematic framework to manage patients when their acute pain continues past 3 months.

Relevance to General Practice

Treatment of opioid addiction should be underpinned by a focus on reduction of harm related to drug use including, but not confined to, a goal of abstinence. As with other medical conditions, assessment of patients with opioid addiction is often part of the initiation of patient-doctor engagement.

Learning outcomes

Recognise and understand the role of opioids.

Identify appropriate strategies to minimise harm when prescribing opioids.

Identify the non opioid options e.g. in knee, back and neuropathic pain