Bulletin 284: Chronic pain

These resources support the review of pain pathways and facilitate appropriate primary care management of chronic pain (excluding cancer or neuropathic pain).

Resources include a visual data pack, template treatment pathways, information on self management resources, patient information about reducing opioid doses, adverse effects of opioids and a template patient letter opioid prescription agreement. There is a community pharmacist support for opioids, opioid usage audit and chronic pain educational presentation.