Pain services
Inpatient pain service
Our team support adult inpatients admitted across UHS with the aim of helping achieve the best patient outcome by working together with the multidisciplinary team.
Please note that UHS has other pain services - the children’s pain management team and a hospital palliative care team (HPCT).
The IPS promotes undertaking a comprehensive pain assessment on patients, supporting the implementation of safe and effective pain management plans across UHS.
Chronic/persistent pain or opioid tolerance on the background of an acute pain issue might represent a more complex situation and the IPS is available to help provide specialist pain management advice.
We are available Monday to Friday, 8am to 5.30pm, with out of hours support delivered by the anaesthetic department.
We are responsible for training and education in pain assessment, patient controlled analgesia (PCA), local anaesthetic infiltration (LAI), epidurals, Entonox, and other ad hoc teaching as required.
Meet the team
Medical team
Based at UHS
- Dr Paul Fernandes, clinical lead for IPS/consultant anaesthetist
- Dr Anna Walton, consultant anaesthetist
Solent NHS Trust provide two sessions per week
- Dr Cathy Price, consultant in pain medicine
- Dr Gary Gutteridge, consultant in pain medicine
- Dr Joanna Harding, consultant in pain medicine
Nursing team
Helen Jones, Jackie Gooch, Andre De Oliveira Teixeira, Sara Baker, Amie Lomax, Maria Salgado Fontoura Sampaio.
Patient leaflets
Below you can find the patient leaflet on pain relief at home.
Useful links
- Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence Fourth Edition 2015 Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) and Faculty of Pain Medicine
ANZCA: Acute pain management scientific evidence - Bio-psychosocial model
Psycho-pedia: Biopsychosocial model - British National Formulary (2020) BMJ Group and Pharmaceutical Press: London
BNF Online: BNF Publications - Change Grow Live drug and alcohol service - Southampton community support for patients with substance misuse problems
Change Grow Live website - Change Pain - educational website for healthcare professionals
Change Pain website - Dose equivalents and changing opioids, provided by the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
Faculty of Pain Medicine: Dose equivalents and changing opioids
(comparison between different opioid dose equivalents. Do not switch from one opioid used long term to another without specialist advice). - Opioids Aware, provided by the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists website - Opioids Aware - Pain Scale for non-English speaking patients, provided by the British Pain Society
The British Pain Society: Pain scales in multiple languages - Persistent Pain Management NHS Solent Website
- Pharmacists and safe opioid prescribing, provided by the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists website - Pharmacists and safe opioid prescribing - The Pain Toolkit – for people who live with persistent pain
- UK Government recommendations on opioid prescribing
GOV.UK: Opioids - risk of dependence and addiction (September 2020) - UK Government opioids safety information leaflet
GOV.UK: MRHA leafet on opioid medication - Wessex leaflet - why does my GP want to reduce my painkillers?
QR codes
Solent NHS Trust: Persistent pain management service (use this link or QR code below)
UHS pain relief at home patient information leaflet (use this link or QR code below)
