GP Pain Management II - Working with your patients

Join North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network for this GP management webinar to better prepare yourself to perform a holistic biopsychosocial assessment for patients with chronic pain.

This one-and-half hour chronic pain webinar aims to provide a framework for GPs and allied health practitioners to comprehensively manage patients with chronic pain.

The session will cover:

• managing pharmacological risk of chronic pain patients
• pharmacological options for chronic pain management
• non-pharmacological options for chronic pain management 
• identification of patients who would benefit from referral to a tertiary pain service or to community based management.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of the session, the participants will be able to:

• recall strategies to reduce pharmacological risk of chronic pain patients
• recall pharmacological options for chronic pain management
• explain the core principles of allied health management of people with chronic pain
• describe the non-pharmacological treatment options are available for people with chronic pain and how to access these.
• identify which patients would benefit from referral to a tertiary pain service or to community based treatment (such as community based pain management groups, exercise group or physiotherapy)
• identify people presenting with high levels of distress and/or psychosocial risk who would benefit from referral to community-based psychology, counselling or other services.

Speaker panel from the - Barbara Walker Centre for Pain Management (St Vincent's Hospital)

Dr Aston Wan – Clinical Director

Dr Amit Ganguly– Lead Pain Physician

Zoe Harper – Senior Physiotherapist

Daisy Aitken – Acting Senior Psychologist