We provide a full inpatient and day case pain management service at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) and chronic pain outpatient clinics at Orpington Hospital and Beckenham Beacon.

The inpatient pain team at the Princess Royal sees and advises patients with acute or chronic conditions including back pain, pancreatitis and abdominal pain, and after surgery.  The team also provides a telephone follow-up service for some patients who have been seen and treated in the chronic pain clinic.

The outpatient chronic pain team sees and advises patients with chronic (long-term) conditions such as back pain, abdominal pain and joint pain, including knee and hip.

Therapies offered include:

• education on how to manage pain
• painkilling medication (analgesia)
• TENS
• injections such as trigger point and nerve blocks
• day case procedures such as epidural steroid, lumbar plexus blocks, thoracic paravertebral block, scar infiltration, facet joint injections, radio frequency treatment
• referrals for other therapies such as physiotherapy and pain management programmes.
  

Preparing for your appointment

Please bring with you:

• a list of the medications you are currently taking
• letters about your condition from other hospitals
• any scan results.

Contact

Admissions officer, tel: 01689 864366

Pain admissions, email: kch-tr.pruhpainadmissions@nhs.net

Pain service secretary, tel:  01689 866007

Pain service, email: kch-tr.pruhpainservice@nhs.net

For GPs and other health professionals

To refer to our outpatient chronic pain clinics please use NHS e-Referral only.