provide full 8-week mindfulness courses within a multidisciplinary secondary outpatient pain management and rehabilitation service. We will also reflect on how we have grown to align to these high standards of training for There is a growing appetite for the provision of mindfulness training in order for staff to deliver mindfulness teaching on Pain Management Programmes (PMPs). With this, there is also a debate around what should be the minimum required standards for training pain management staff to teach mindfulness. In addition, the recent guidance on chronic primary pain made recommendations for more research into both the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness. In this article, we will share our experience from our ongoing audit of clinical outcomes of having various members of our multidisciplinary team (MDT) trained in the necessary competences to provide full 8-week mindfulness courses within a multidisciplinary secondary outpatient pain management and rehabilitation service. We will also reflect on how we have grown to align to these high standards of training for PMP staff wishing to teach mindfulness, bearing in mind that they are believed to be the good practice standards required by most registered mindfulness teachers and supervisors.
Self-Selection all the Way: Improving Patients’ Pain Experience and Outcomes on a Pilot Breathworks Mindfulness for Health Programme
This review explores adverse surgical outcomes for patients who experience hypothermia in the peri-operative period. Findings of the literature review highlight the need to establish a standard definition of hypothermia. Furthermore, the literature supports the full implementation of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance on ‘The Management of Inadvertent Perioperative Hypothermia in Adults’. A total of 18 studies were critically appraised to determine their rigour, reliability and validity. A discussion of the findings from the studies has taken into account the inferences drawn from the appraisal. Evaluation of the quality of the evidence has been used to evaluate which findings could apply to clinical practice. While there were variations in study quality, the evidence supports
developing an effective strategy for preventing hypothermia in the peri- operative period.