Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust

 

Pain Relief Clinic

Referring via Choose & Book

Use Choose & Book for the following
  • Routine patients should always be referred via the Choose & Book system. 
  • Urgent patients should preferably be faxed to 01865 226160 for the consultant to prioritise as clinically appropriate.
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Referring direct

If the patient has chosen to use the Oxford Pain Relief Unit, and you do not wish to use Choose & Book, please write directly to:

Oxford Pain Relief Unit
Churchill Hospital
Old Road
Headington
OX3 7LJ

All referrals are now pooled between consultants unless clinical need or patient preference suggest otherwise.

Common conditions

Any chronic pain condition, including back and neck pain, neuralgia, headache and migraine, arthritis, CFS/ME and somatoform pain disorder.

Treatments which may be offered in the unit

  • Injections (nerve blocks)
  • TENS
  • Clinical psychology
  • Drug therapy
  • Outpatient Pain Management Programme
  • Spinal cord stimulation

Exclusions from this clinic

  • Paediatric pain
  • Chronic pain requiring further investigations
  • Cancer related pain (normally referred to Palliative Medicine initially)
  • Acupuncture, chiropractic treatment or osteopathy

Associated clinics

  • Periodic combined clinics with specialists in neurology (mainly for head pains)
  • Neurosurgery (mainly spinal cord stimulation) and musculo-skeletal rehabilitation

General note

Blood diarrhoea is appropriate, but not simply a change in bowel habit with rectal bleeding. Abdominal pain with diarrhoea and weight loss and elevated CRP is appropriate, but not symptoms in the absence of objective evidence of inflammation except patients previously diagnosed with IBD.