Sometimes when you start a clinical audit project it can be be very challenging to decide what are the most important questions you need to answer. And it is so important to get these right- really crucial to the overall success of the project and has a major influence on the breadth and depth of… Read More

The Interventional Pain surveys are currently open but only for about another 8 days. This audit is a little different as there is no case note audit. Instead there are two surveys. One for service leads and one for healthcare professionals The service lead in your area should have sent out the hcp link to… Read More

Don’t miss our first Pallaborative event of 2022 which is live on MS Teams tomorrow Thursday 31st March. Chaired by Dr Tom Steele and Dr Laura Shaw we start at 1pm. If you are a signed up member you will have received an email with the link to join the meeting. If you haven’t got… Read More

This week we offer three very different articles that you may have missed but hopefully will be both interesting and useful. Diagnostic uncertainty is something we deal with every day. This review looks at our understanding of the concept, how we manage it and how best we should communicate it to both patients and families.… Read More

There are only a few more days left. We are closing our annual Pallaborative North West survey on Tuesday 8th March. Don’t miss this opportunity to give your feedback and comments as well as highlighting the clinical topics you think we should be focusing on in 2023. Use this link to get access to our… Read More

Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States serving between 1901-1909 He once said “the more you know about the past- the better prepared you are for the future…” And with that in mind this week we have a couple of articles from the archives. In 2001 Dame Cicely Saunders published an article… Read More

Sometimes when you start a clinical audit project it can be be very challenging to decide what are the most important questions you need to answer. And it is so important to get these right- really crucial to the overall success of the project and has a major influence on the breadth and depth of… Read More

The launch meeting for our Pallaborative North West 2023 programme takes place on 31st March 2022. Before then we need to know which topics you think we should be focusing on for 2023 and how we can develop Pallaborative North West so that it really helps you. Please take a few minutes to complete the… Read More

Our Guideline Development Group for Interventional Pain are working hard producing new draft guidelines covering access to interventional pain procedures. This will be presented at our July Pallaborative North West meeting. They very much hope that this project will make it easier for all patients to access the procedures that they need. In the not… Read More

The Guideline Development Group for the Management of Breakthrough Pain will be starting their data collection in May 2022 using the Survey Monkey format. The audit will focus on patients who have used breakthrough medication, including any immediate release fentanyl products in the preceding 12 months. They would like everyone to start thinking now about… Read More