The Pain Management Service in NHS Ayrshire & Arran is an outpatient multi-disciplinary team.
It offers a range of different approaches, with the aim of improving the lives of people with persistent pain. Persistent pain is pain that lasts longer than 3 months.
Our values are a holistic person-centred approach to empower people to improve their quality of life while living with a long term pain condition.
This is achieved by promoting safe and appropriate prescribing, providing advice, support and therapy to enable people to self-manage their long term condition.
Following acceptance into the service, you may be invited to attend a Pain Early Information (PEIS) group session as your first appointment.
Clinics are held in different locations across NHS Ayrshire & Arran, both in person and virtual. Telephone and video consultations are used.
Team members
Pain can impact on all aspects of someone’s life. Along with consultants and specialist doctors in anaesthesia, the team includes healthcare professionals from different disciplines.
You might meet one or a number of the different members of the team depending on your individual pain management plan.
Watch the videos below to understand each profession’s role within the service:
Jacquelyn – Nurse
Emma – Physiotherapist
Clare – Occupational Therapist
Gillian – Pharmacist
Dr Nina Cockton – Psychologist
Referral criteria
Referrals to the pain management service can be made by any appropriately qualified Healthcare Professionals.
Referrals should be made electronically through either SCI gateway or internal referral system.
Referrals from Allied Health Professionals (AHP’s) should be generated from the AHP referral form and sent to the pain management Physiotherapy clinical mailbox.