FPM and RCoA have released Surgery and Opioids: Best practice guidelines.
Guidance
Update to recommendations for good practice of epidural injections for pain of spinal origin.
Core Standards for Pain Management Services UK is out for open consultation.
Update to the GMC guidance on 'Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines'.
The FPM/RCoA Opioid Prescribing Project Working Party are pleased to release, ‘Surgery & Opioids: Best Practice Guidelines 2020' for open consultation.
The Faculty, alongside the RCoA, AoA, RPS, RCN, SBNS and APAGBI, have published updated guidance on Best Practice in the Management of Epidural Analgesia in the Hospital Setting.
The Faculty is pleased there has been a NICE review of Perioperative care in adults. It is important to note that the newly published guideline NG180 does not cover the entire perioperative pathway.
The FPM has published guidance for pain practice post COVID-19 in relation to triage and consultations. This guidance outlines the specific considerations to optimise specialist pain consultations post COVID-19.
The FPM and BPS have jointly published guidance on the use of pain interventions during the COVID-19 recovery phase.
The Faculty has published guidance on the resumption of pain services following the disruption by the COVID-19 pandemic