Pain Medicine

Medway Pain Service offers a broad range of interventions and therapies for the treatment of pain:

  • Chronic pain management, providing outpatient consultations and day surgery procedures
  • Acute pain service providing support to inpatient services particularly after surgery
  • Pain management outpatient programmes to help reduce the distress and disability of chronic pain by providing people with ways of coping with the problems caused by chronic pain

The Chronic Pain Team                                           

Dr Sami Alawad, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine

Dr Chee Fone-Chu, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine

Dr Sandesha Kothari, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine

Mrs Janet Norton, Clinical Nurse Specialist

Dr Raja Reddy, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine

Mrs Karen Sterba, Pathway Co-ordinator

Mrs Sharon Attis, Pathway Co-ordinator

The Acute Pain Team

Dr Chee Fone-Chu, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine

Dr Kryspin Stepien, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Management

Acute Pain Nurse, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Sandy O’Mant

The Medway Pain Management Programme Team

Dr Sandesha Kothari, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine

Dr Mario Vergaro-Williamson, Consultant Psychologist

Mrs Elisabeth Willmet, Specialist Clinician Physiotherapist

Mrs Sharon Attis, Support Secretary.

Mrs Sharon Kaur, Service Manager for Perioperative & Critical Care

Patient Leaflets

Pain Management Programme - Patient Information Leaflet 

Referrals:

Medway Pain Services will accept adults (18 years and over) with chronic pain (over three months) that is refractory to standard analgesia.

Access to this service can be via GP, consultant or Clinical Assessment Service referral.

Related Services:

Opioid Clinic

Clinical Assessment Service

Spinal MDT