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Guidance and Resources

• Faculty of Pain Medicine – Dose Equivalent and Changing Opioids
• Faculty of Pain Medicine – Opioids Aware: A Resource for Patients and Healthcare Professionals to Support Prescribing of Opioid Medicines for Pain
• NICE Medicines Optimisation in Long Term Pain Advice
• NICE Clinical Knowledge Summary – Opioid Dependence
• NICE Clinical Knowledge Summary – Analgesia Mild to Moderate Pain
• PrescQIPP – Non-Neuropathic Pain
• PrescQIPP – Oxycodone
• PrescQIPP – Opioid Patches
• The Pain Toolkit
• Practical Pain Management – Opioid Conversion and Dosing Calculator
• SIGN – Management of Chronic Pain
• Guidance for Opioid Reduction in Primary Care (taken from Oxford University Hospitals)
• Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain: Resource Pack (taken from Wigan Borough CCG)

Data

• Open Prescribing Data – High Dose Opioids as % of Regular Opioids
• Open Prescribing Data – High Dose Opioids per 1000 Patients
• Open Prescribing Data – Prescribing of Opioids (Total Oral Morphine Equivalence)
• Open Prescribing Data – Prescribing of Pregabalin (Total mg)
• Open Prescribing Data – Prescribing of Pregabalin

Audit tools and GP Clinical Practice searches

• PrescQIPP – High Dose Opioids Audits
• PrescQIPP - EMIS Web - Importing Searches
• PrescQIPP - EMIS Web Opioid Searches
• PrescQIPP - SystmOne - Importing Searches
• PrescQIPP - SystmOne Opioid Searches
• KISS - Fentanyl Patches
• KISS - Opioids for Chronic Pain
• KISS - Oxycodone
• KISS - Pregabalin
• Opioids Aware Audit - Returns Form
• Feedback Template to Request Review of Opioid Medication
• Opioids Proforma
• Anonymised GP Reflections

Brainman Videos

• Understanding Pain Video – Brainman Stops his Opioids
• Understanding Pain Video – Brainman Chooses
• Understanding Pain Video – Brainman

Articles

• The Guardian - Opioids Don't Work for Most People. So Why Do We Still Prescribe Them?
• The Lancet – Opioid Prescribing Trends and Geographical Variation in England 1998-2018
• NHS Sharing Good Practice – Faye’s Story
• The Guardian - Amelia's Story
• Managing Addiction to Prescribed Opioids – The Job of General Practice?
• BMA Analgesic Use Article

Safety Bulletins

• Transdermal Fentanyl Patches – Life Threatening and Fatal Opioid Toxicity from Accidental Exposure (Particularly in Children)
• NPSA - Reducing Dosing Errors with Opioid Medicines Alert

Pallative Care

• WHO's Pain Relief Ladder
• NICE Palliative Care for Adults: Strong Opioids for Pain Relief
• Symptom Managment Guidelines for Care of Adults in the Last Hours or Days of Life (taken from Wigan Borough CCG)

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