Episode 1: Cannabis + Pain
Part 1: Theory of cannabis + pain will feature
Registered Nurse: CPASS’s Clinical Lead Sophie Hayes RN in conversation with
Specialist Pain Consultant: Integro Clinics Senior Clinical Adviser and Hon. Medical Director, Dr Anthony Ordman.
Over the next 12 months, medical leaders from a multitude of disciplines will come together to provide world-class education on medicinal cannabis for UK registered nurses and healthcare professionals.
Each event, led by nurses, will be structured into 2 parts; the theory behind the benefits of cannabis medicines within key areas of medicine, and an MDT demonstrating how the theory is put into practice.
Each broadcasted session will feature a Specialist Consultant, Nurse, GP and Pharmacist working within the medicinal cannabis sector in the UK. Their discussion will illustrate real-world case studies within each of the following areas; pain, mental health, neurology, palliative care & oncology and women’s health.
This approach is a pioneering welcome for health practitioners in the UK, as medicinal cannabis education expands to reach a more inclusive sector of frontline medics.
While the aim of the webinar series is to provide practical education for health professionals about the real-life clinical applications of cannabis medicines, the sessions will be equally valuable for patients, care-givers, or indeed anyone with an interest in deepening their understanding of how CBMPs can bring symptom relief in a select variety of indications.
The series will end with an event exploring the stigma surrounding these new cannabis medicines and how healthcare professionals may gain a better understanding of them in order to better care for our patients.
ABOUT
Sophie Hayes RN
A registered nurse working within the NHS, CPASS Nurse’s Arm Clinical Lead and Lead Nurse at Integro Medical Clinics.
Sophie is a specialist in Emergency and Acute Medicine and has worked in A&E at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Acute Admissions at St Thomas’s Hospital and is currently working in the critical care units at Kings College Hospital as part of a trauma course, where she gained frontline experience in response to Covid-19.
Her journey championing medicinal cannabis began in 2009 when her partner was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease and discovered cannabis helped him relieve some of the symptoms. In 2014 he became involved in patient advocacy organisation, United Patients Alliance. Sophie joined him and other volunteers in travelling the country to help educate the public and policymakers on how cannabis had helped them. When qualifying as a nurse in 2017, Sophie wrote her dissertation on “The role of the Nurse when working with patients using cannabis to manage their conditions.”
Sophie’s been involved in establishing the Nurse’s Arm of CPASS since our launch, in 2019.
Dr Anthony Ordman
Senior full-time Specialist Consultant in Pain Medicine. Senior Clinical Advisor and Hon. Medical Director at Integro Clinic.
He founded the Pain Management Service at London’s Royal Free Hospital in 1997, including the highly regarded Chronic Pain Clinic with a specialist multidisciplinary team designed to help patients with pain and its associated difficulties. He also set up the Royal Free’s Acute Pain Service to help those suffering from post-surgical and trauma pain.
Dr Ordman has many years of experience looking after patients with pain across a wide variety of conditions, including spinal, musculoskeletal and nerve pain, post-surgical and trauma pain, and some cancer-related pain. He firmly believes that an individualised, patient-centred approach is important for each person, and understands how to help with the low mood and exhaustion that long-term pain can bring.
Dr Ordman was appointed as Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians for his contribution to pain medicine and serves as President of the Pain Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.
With a passion for music and singing, Dr Ordman, therefore, is delighted to have been appointed Medical Advisor and Consultant in Pain Medicine to the Royal Society of Musicians.
CPASS:
Is a cross-sector collaborative initiative, the Nurse’s Arm of CPASS, launched in November 2019 at the Royal College of Nursing in London, is in founding partnership with former Health Minister and MP, Professor Ann Lloyd Keen RN NDN FQNI FRCN FAAN. CPASS mission is to collaborate, advocate, research and educate, empowering frontline healthcare professionals to make an impact on how cannabis-based medicinal products (CBMPs) may feature in the future of healthcare in Britain. It’s Nurse, Midwife and Educator led principal focus is on improving health, clinical outcomes and patient experience, through building nursing and midwifery leadership capacity to make significant improvements to the cannabinoid patient care pathway.
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