Pain Matters Magazine 78 Edizione posteriore

It has been a long twelve months for everyone, not least people in pain and the healthcare professionals who care from them. Pain clinics have closed, GP consultations and pain management programmes have moved online, forcing a fundamental rethink of how pain services can, and should, be delivered.

In this issue of Pain Matters, our guest editors come from the North Bristol NHS Trust, where, in the past ten years, Nick Ambler and his team have tried hard to create a more personalised form of pain management and support. During the Covid-19 pandemic, this was obviously harder, but Nick wants to show our readers how they have managed to keep things moving and make ‘the best of difficult circumstances’. We also have updates from some
other NHS pain services around the UK, on how they have adapted their services to continue providing care during lockdown.

Also in issue 78, following on from Airing Pain programme 120 on osteoporosis, back in January 2020 (available from painconcern.org.uk/airingpain), Sarah Leyland from the Royal Osteoporosis Society, who contributed to that programme, gives us an overview of this so-called ‘silent disease’.