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About Us

Our Clinical Team
Pain Management Solutions operates a multi-disciplinary team approach.  Clinical teams comprise of a Consultant in Pain Medicine,  GPwSIs,  Specialist Nurses and AHPs, and HCAs.  An understanding of the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy and interdisciplinary team working are the cornerstones of our operational success.

Our Administration Team:
Organized, focused and hard-working individuals who co-ordinate our busy clinical agenda, ensure smooth and timely communication between ourselves and those using the service, are paramount to our success in meeting the needs of each and every individual patient.

Our background
Pain Management Solutions (PMS) exists primarily to develop and deliver NHS pain services as a vehicle of change.  It was formed in 2006 by experienced healthcare professionals who shared a common interest in revolutionising pain management in the NHS.  The pivotal element of PMS has been the creation of a community-based approach focused on early intervention and the cessation of chronicity.

  • April 2007 - PMS started its first community-based service, commissioned by Sheffield PCT.
  • April 2007 - PMS was contracted by a private hospital in Sheffield to deliver a Choose & Book pain service. 
  • 2008 – PMS commissioned by a PBC GP Consortium in Nottingham.
  • January 2009 - Nottingham City PCT commissioned PMS to deliver a spinal service, offering an integrated Trauma & Orthopaedic, Pain Management and Neurosurgical pathway. 
  • Since 2007 the PMS Service has grown exponentially, becoming the provider of choice for increased numbers of patients and GPs in the SHA regions of Yorkshire, Humber and East Midlands.
  • PMS is now the largest non hospital based provider of Choose & Book services in the UK.

 Our vision
We passionately believe that primary care is the appropriate setting for pain management. PMS is committed to developing pain services that ensure the expertise of specialists is harnessed and their maximum potential is made more accessible to patients in their local community.  This requires a paradigm shift in the expectations, perceptions and fundamental beliefs which many professional people hold about the purpose and place of pain clinics and other associated services.  PMS therefore understands that it must offer support and education to primary care.
We believe that when pain management is placed towards the beginning of the patient journey, and is supported by effective relationships between clinicians within and outside of the service, it is realistic to expect improvements in clinical outcomes.  This is being borne out in services that we deliver.  

The future
Pain clinics have traditionally been the place to send patients as a last resort.  Commonly the patient is ‘lost’ within secondary care for some time before being referred to the pain clinic, often without the GP’s involvement.  At this point the associated co-morbidities (chronicity) are well established and may be entrenched into a patient’s behavioural patterns.  These factors make pain management complex, costly and seemingly ineffective.

The PMS pain clinics are designed as a rehabilitation service as opposed to a mere palliative care service for long-term benign pain.  We believe that the prevalence and intensity of chronicity is something that can be reduced if the expertise of a pain service is delivered to the patient sooner, rather than later, after a problem begins to develop. 
Our portfolio of treatments does not vary greatly from any other pain clinic.  Pain management has more to do with the ‘how’ and ‘when’ than it has to do with the ‘what’.  Interdisciplinary team working is an essential component, as is the relationship between the pain clinic, the GP and the patient.