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Pain and Medico-Legal Workshop

Webinar

12 Mar 2021

9:00AM - 12:30PM

Assessing and formulating chronic pain in personal injury cases: consideration of psychological and medical factors. This course is delivered in partnership with Applied Psychology Solutions. Updated to include additional sections on age related factors and expanding on the relevance of the social and emotional developmental trajectory issues of young adults and adolescents developing pain symptoms. Updated to include additional sections on age related factors and expanding on the relevance of the social and emotional developmental trajectory issues of young adults and adolescents developing pain symptoms. Updated to include additional sections on age related factors and expanding on the relevance of the social and emotional developmental trajectory issues of young adults and adolescents developing pain symptoms.

Outline

  • Causation
    • Differential diagnoses in chronic pain and other psychological presentations; the role of pre existing chronic pain.
    • Diagnosis Vs formulation
    • How to navigate psychogenic discussions in joint case discussions
  • Condition & Prognosis
    • Assessing the psychological impact of pain and contextualising this in proportionate terms
    • Treatment recommendations, including costings, venues, and timing of interventions.
    • Psychological prognosis in the context of chronic pain 

CPD Hours: 3.5

Non-Members: £175 / Members: £150

Speaker Dr Hannah Bashforth (Twiddy) Dr Hannah Bashforth has worked as a clinical psychologist in pain services across the North West for 14 years. She is currently based within one of the UKs leading NHS tertiary pain management services (Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust) as a senior clinical psychologist and research and audit lead for pain management programmes. Dr Bashforth holds an honorary post at the University of Liverpool and has strong working affiliations with the University of Manchester where she is responsible for supervising PhD and Clinical Psychology Doctoral research. Dr Bashforth holds positions on the British Pain Society PMP committee as the national psychology representative, is on the scientific committee for the Pain Relief Foundation, Liverpool and is part of the national committee for PMP guideline revision. Dr Bashforth is regularly invited to speak and present at events, recently including the British Symposium on Diabetic Neuropathy and The British Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting. Dr Bashforth has been working in private practice since 2009 and commenced medicolegal work in 2012. She completes both personal injury and medical negligence claims for claimant and defence. Dr Bashforth exclusively focuses upon complex and multi track cases completing in the region of 60 cases per annum. Dr Bashforth recently published in the British Journal of Pain examining the role of litigation in PMP outcomes.

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Please note, any delegates who do not attend on the day will not receive a refund.  Access to the event will be denied if payment in advance has not been made.

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