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Pain Relief Clinic

Treatments| | Exclusions| |  Neuropathic pain and opioids|

Email advice

GPs can email with any questions or queries that they may have about any aspect of pain management.

Referring via Choose & Book

Use Choose & Book for the following
  • Routine patients: these should always be referred via the Choose & Book system. 
  • Urgent patients: these should preferably be faxed for the consultant to prioritise as clinically appropriate.

    Fax: 01865 572088
  • No direct referrals taken from Oxfordshire.

Common conditions

Any chronic pain condition, including:

  • back and neck pain
  • neuralgia
  • headache and migraine
  • arthritis
  • somatoform pain disorder.

Treatments which may be offered in the unit

  • Drug therapy
  • Injections (nerve blocks)
  • TENS
  • Clinical psychology

Treatments that we can refer patients for

  • Outpatient pain management programmes / physiotherapy
  • Spinal cord stimulation / deep brain stimulation
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Exclusions from this clinic

  • Paediatric pain – young adults accepted 16+
  • Chronic pain requiring further investigations
  • Acupuncture, chiropractic treatment or osteopathy 

Associated clinics

  • Periodic combined clinics with specialists in neurology (only for head pains)
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Neuropathic pain and opioids

Patient criteria

The MDT service is available for patients who are currently attending, or are known to the Pain Services.

New patients who are unknown to the Pain Services should be referred with their consent via their general practitioner, and be assessed by at least one core member before discussion at the MDT meeting.

Previous patients (discharged from the Oxford Pain Services) may be referred for discussion at MDT for advice to determine if re-admission is appropriate.

All current patients should have a primary consultant from the Pain Service. However, the primary consultant is not necessarily the referring clinician. The patient can be referred to the MDT on behalf on the named consultant by another clinician.

Meetings

GPs can refer to guidelines developed by the PCT and Pain Relief consultants on the management of neuropathic pain and opioids on the PCT intranet.

GPs are welcome to question us about their patients via the email advice line:

and also visit and discuss joint patients in our regular PROBLEM (patients requiring opioids beyond levels expected for management) meetings held as part of our MDT meeting on Monday afternoons.

The meetings take place in:

  • Seminar Room
    Pain Relief Unit
    Churchill Hospital

There are currently two meetings in a month, held on a Monday starting at 1.30pm. The average time for discussion varies, but is on average 20 minutes per case. Each MDT meeting is two hours long.

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