Cornwall Pain Cafes

This guideline applies to adults aged over 16 years.

Introduction

A Pain Cafe is a space that provides peer support, opportunities to learn pain self management skills and to share tips and experiences and activity to support wellbeing.

Referral

Pain Cafes provide support to people experiencing chronic pain in local community to low intensity support, tailored to the individual to

Peer support for skills not pills approach to support self management of pain
Reduce isolation and increase support networks
Access help, support, information, guidance and connections to services

It is a prevention service for older adults with long term chronic pain, those people waiting for surgery, for people post-surgery in the community after rehabilitation programmes, people of working age who maybe off sick with pain or returning to work with long term pain conditions.

Please note that Pain Cafes are not suitable for people with complex mental health needs.

Pain Cafe locations

Probus, Camelford, Wadebridge, Truro, Carnon Downs, Perranporth, Dawlish, Holsworthy, Bude, Hayle, Bodmin, Par, St Ives, Helston, Newlyn, St Austell, Falmouth, Newquay, online monthly extra sessions tbc, St Austell Cancer Cafe

https://pain.cafe

Referral instructions

Patients can self refer on 01872 492872 between 9am and 5pm. If lines are busy, please leave a message and we will call back

Health care professionals and their wider social prescribing team can also make a referral with the patient’s consent by any of these options:

Phone 01872 492872
Email info@pain.cafe with person’s name, contact details and confirmation of consent

Connected by Pain Website referral form https://pain.cafe

Page Review Information

Review date	20 June 2025
Next review date	20 June 2027
GP speciality lead	Dr Rebecca Hopkins
Contributors	Nikki Kelly, ImagineIf