The Walton Pain Centre has won a £10k award to help fund its projects and further improve their patient care.
The centre stormed to victory at the annual Grünenthal Pain Awards, taking the top prize of £10k.
For the seventh year running the Grünenthal Pain Awards recognises excellent work in the field of pain management and those working on improving their patient care.
The NHS Foundation Trust’s PMP is a specialist service that provides rehabilitation programmes for neuropathic and musculoskeletal pain conditions.
The programme’s goal is to help educate and provide skills to people to make them be able to manage their health and wellbeing while dealing with long term pain.
Graham Derbyshire, a Pain Specialist Physiotherapist, said: “The PMP aims to help people living with chronic pain conditions to minimise the impact of these conditions upon their quality of life. These conditions also impact upon surrounding family and friends, often changing relationships and roles.
“With this in mind the PMP team have developed a booklet aimed at children aged 6 to 11years who have a significant person in their life living with chronic pain. Very broadly speaking the booklet is designed to reduce any associated fear, anxiety or confusion a child may have and to explain that people living with pain can still have full, happy lives.
“The booklet is designed to be used by the adult and child together in order to enhance their communication and promote coping strategies that are mutually beneficial.”
Walton’s winning bid outlined the purpose and content that goes into helping patients and the need to hire outside professional services to ensure the booklet was understandable to children.
One of the Pain Award judges Anthony Chuter said: “For children, it is especially hard if a parent, grandparent or close family member can’t do what they used to do with them – and if they’re tired and grumpy because of their pain. The changes that people go through when they develop long term pain are huge.
“The finalist team have produced the most wonderful resource for the children of people who live with or are living in pain. The judges were unanimous in their decision that this project should be awarded the top Grünenthal award.