Dear People’s Panel Member
This email is to let you know that NHS Fife are looking for people to join the Pain Medicines Patient Safety Programme Lived Experience Group.
The Pain Medicines Patient Safety Programme is a three-year programme which aims to change the culture of pain management in Fife, working with patients, carers and staff to improve the understanding of short-term and long-term pain and reducing harm. The Programme has moved into Year 2 and they have created a Lived Experience Group to ensure that patient and carer voices are directly informing the work of the Programme.
The Programme are hoping to recruit additional members with a recent diagnosis of a chronic pain condition or who are caring for someone living with pain to the recently formed Lived Experience Group to ensure that these voices are also heard.
The commitment would be a few hours a month, this can vary a little depending upon the work of the programme and would involve attendance at mixture of online and face to face meetings.
They ask that volunteers:
- be a resident within the NHS Fife Board area
- have lived experience of a chronic pain condition within the last 2 years (as patient, family member or carer)
- Due to the online nature of meetings at the present time, volunteers would require the skill and technology to access meetings via Microsoft TEAMS
- have good verbal and listening skills
If you are interested in finding out more, then please get in touch by emailing
and they will arrange to contact you to answer any questions you may have and to discuss the process for becoming involved.
Kind regards
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The above information is from People Panel email NHS Fife – Public Partner Volunteer Opportunities Pain Medicines Patient Safety Programme Lived Experience Group Mon 23/10/2023