Share this page: Understanding Persistent Pain & My Pain Management Journey SMSKPE, along with input from colleagues at Connect Health and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s Pain Team have put together a handbook for those living with persistent pain. This handbook is designed to help you understand and manage persistent pain. It is a […]
Welcome To Our Updated Website! More mobile friendly, more accessible, cleaner and more functional! Allow us a minute to show you around, and show you what’s new: If you’re a regular visitor, then you might have been aware of the changes as we made the live updates to avoid taking our website down or losing […]
ANNUAL REPORT 2021/2022 Sussex MSK Partnership East’s Annual Report for 2021 – 2022. As we complete our seventh year, find out about what our service has done and achieved during 2021/22. How we constantly strive to put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Read about what we have learnt throughout the year […]
What is a Musculoskeletal First Contact Practitioner (MSK FCP)? By Harry HolderFirst Contact Practitioner, Chartered Physiotherapist Share this page: 7 minute read Introduction: First Contact Practitioners (FCPs) were introduced to NHS general practice after extensive pilot studies in 2018-19. These FCP services offer patients access to an expert Physiotherapist at their very first […]
Looking After Our Carbon Foot (& Ankle) Print Some changes are brewing here at Sussex MSK Partnership East, as we begin to align our ways of working to the ‘Greener NHS’ initiatives and look to tackle our environmental impact. The article below discusses this further. “SMSKPE is ‘switching to email’. Therefor our conversations with patients […]
Videos While You Wait We have put together a series of videos outlining the exercises our ‘Guide to having healthy hips and knees’ booklet. We hope that these will give you some idea of what you could do while waiting for an appointment or to remind you how to do them if you have been […]