Learn the skills to help your patients reduce or eliminate their opioid consumption and get back to living their lives
Pending RACGP approval for 20 CPD activity points & ACRRM 10 PDP Hours
Statement of Attendance Provided to all attendees
100% Grant funded (T&Cs Apply - See Below)
Agenda (TBC)
Essential training for General Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Practice Nurses, Psychologists
and Dentists with an interest in Chronic Pain and who work in rural communities.
*Compulsory Pre-event Webinar* Pain & the Multidisciplinary Team
8.00 am - 8.05 am Welcome Prof Michael Yelland
8.05 am - 8.35 am Chronic Pain - Beyond the Bio Model Assoc Prof Damien Finness
8.35 am - 9.05 am Opioids - the good, the bad, the how and why we prescribe them in the community.Assoc Prof Damien Finness
9.05 am - 9.35 am Do you need to prescribe? - risk assessment (OMPSQ-10 background to psychosocial, scoring, interpreting and management)oint Associate Professor Paul Wrigley
9.35 am - 9.55 am Cases/workshop on doing OMPSQ-10 and clinical reasoning what to do. Jacquelyn Nash
9.50 am - 10.00 am Break
10.00 am - 10.45 am The effects of hospitalisation/presentation on prescription and principles of transitional care Dr Anne Daly
10.45 am - 11.15 am How to actually do the deprescribing
11.15 am -11.45 am Brief Clinical Interventions in pain
11.45 am - 12.15 pm Community Based MultiDisciplinary Teams in Rural Towns (TBC)
12.15 pm - 1.00 pm Lunch & MDT Networking Session - Join a virtual table and get to know your local colleagues & future MDT members.
1.00 pm - 1.30 pm Enhancing de-prescibing through non-pharma management
1.30 pm - 1.45 pm Practical
1.45 pm - 2.15 pm GP Billing in Chronic Pain Dr April Armstrong
2.15 pm - 2.30 pm Break
2.30 pm - 3.15 pm Preventing Acute Pain becoming Chronic Pain Assoc Prof Damien Finness & Prof Michael Nicholas
3.15 pm - 3.30 pm Preventing Chronic Pain [Interactive]
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm Putting it all together
4.00 pm Close
Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
steals the joy of life from your patients
You can help them get it back.
It's not easy, but it is teachable.
And it's worth it.
