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How do we build confidence of practitioners to support pain self-management?

4 June 2024
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Many front-line staff who might be expected to introduce and deliver self-management support for persistent pain lack the confidence and skills to do so.

This is consistent with a known lack of education about pain across disciplinary boundaries in primary and community-based care. In order to meet treatment priorities for persistent pain there is an urgent need to upskill the workforce by providing access to good quality training and resources. Our Live well with pain-WRIHW Pain challenge Academy 10-Footsteps pain self-management training programme is designed to deliver the necessary confidence and skills, and is being successfully rolled out all over the UK.