Self referral
Local services
Self Referrals
Active Options are exercise classes offered through Fife Sports and Leisure Trust which support those living with long term health conditions. There are options to self refer or for a Health Professional to refer.
Health & Wellbeing - Fife Sports and Leisure Trust
Locations throughout Fife.
Phone 01383 602209
Disabled Persons Housing Service (Fife) provide full independent housing information, advice and support for disabled people in Fife, assisting them to find the right housing solution that meets their needs. Self referrals can be made.
Disabled Persons Housing Service Fife - Home (dphsfife.org.uk)
Phone 01592 803280
Support for carers in Fife, providing information, practical help, workshops and assistance to take time out. They accept self referral and referrals.
Fife Carers Centre,
157 Commercial St,
Kirkcaldy.
Phone 01592 205472
Support from self-help coaches to people over 16 in Fife who have struggled with childhood trauma and have found it difficult to engage with other services. Accept self referrals and health professional referrals.
Fife Better than Well (Link Living)
Phone 01592 644 048
Sore? Know More! - is a support service run by the Fife Pain Management Service. Find out more about community based support to self-manage your pain.
Book your free session now by phone: 01383 674106 (Monday - Friday, 9:30am - 4pm). Sessions run online and in locations across Fife.
Mental wellbeing
Local services
Access Therapies Fife provides information to help support mental health problems and to access a range of local services. Includes self referral to online sleep and anxiety support.
Link Life Fife’s Link Workers support people over 18 to manage personal stress, anxiety or feelings of being overwhelmed that are affecting their mental health and general wellbeing. The Link Workers use the ‘Good Conversations’ approach to support the person to live as well as they can in the community. A referral from a GP, nurse or other health professional is required.
Link Life Fife | Fife Health and Social Care
Keeping Well Fife mental health directory leaflet containing websites and services that can provide support
Keeping connected, keeping well
Moodcafe is a website providing information and resources to help you understand and improve your mental health.
Fife Better than Well (Link Living) support from self-help coaches to people over 16 in Fife who have struggled with childhood trauma and have found it difficult to engage with other services. Accept self referrals and health professional referrals. Phone 01592 644 048 or visit:
Andy’s Man Club local support groups running every Monday night where you can have a chat and a cuppa.
Sam’s Café one to one mental health support for individuals, families, carers and friends. No appointment or referral required.
Woman’s Wellbeing Club peer support groups run by volunteers at local venues.
Mental Health Support Fife Health and Social Care service provides comprehensive, general mental health services for adults and elderly people across the whole of Fife.
Fife Council mental health support service
National services
An online programme that helps teach techniques to reduce symptoms of low mood, anxiety and stress. Includes a programme specifically to help with the impact of chronic pain. A referral is necessary so discuss this with your GP.
SilverCloud Online Therapy - Access Therapies Fife NHS (scot.nhs.uk)
Activities and exercise
Local services
Active Options are exercise classes offered at Fife Sports and Leisure Trust facilities which support those living with long term health conditions. There are options to self refer or for a Health Professional to refer.
Health & Wellbeing - Fife Sports and Leisure Trust (fifeleisure.org.uk)
Locations throughout Fife.
Phone 01383 602209
Bums off seats is a Fife walking Initiative providing regular, local health walk opportunities in a variety of locations.
Walking | Active Fife - Leisure Hub
Lauren Stoddart
We are undefeatable exercise programme – how to get active whilst living with a health condition including helpful videos
We are undefeatable exercise programme
A directory of local organisations in Fife that you can get involved with and how to access them.
Health information
Local services
Information on NHS Fife about Community Pharmacies and what help and advice they offer.
Information on NHS Fife about the Emergency Department which is for emergencies only, such as severe injury, a suspected heart attack or stroke, breathing difficulties or severe bleeding.
Accident and Emergency | NHS Fife
Information on NHS Fife about General Practices
Fife Pain Management Service actively involves patients, referred with long term pain, to self manage their pain and the effect it has on quality of life.
Fife Pain Management Service | NHS Fife.
National services
NHS 24 enables you to find your nearest services and allows you to assess your symptoms to find out what you should do next.
Phone 111
NHS Inform provides a co-ordinated, single source of quality assured health and care information for Scotland. It includes information on chronic pain.
Diet
National services
The Eatwell Guide shows how much of what we eat overall should come from each food group to achieve a healthy, balanced diet.
Losing weight safely is the best way to reach your healthy weight and to maintain it
Work
Local services
Assistance to help find a job by providing skills training and health support. Also offer support to employers.
Employment support service | StartScotland | Scotland
3 – 5 New Row,
Dunfermline
Phone 0800 049 7061
Supported Employment is a free and confidential employment support service for people living in Fife with disabilities or health issues.
Supported Employment | Fife Council
National services
Healthy Working Lives is a support and referral service to provide support to employers who have staff absent, or at risk of absence, from work due to health conditions.
Working Health Services Scotland provides free and confidential advice for people who are unemployed or working in companies with 250 or less employees and have a health condition which they feel is impacting on their work.
Phone 0800 019 2211
Access to Work can help you get or stay in work if you have a physical or mental health condition or disability. The support you get will depend on your needs.
Medication
Pain Medicine Card – to follow (local)
Leaflet Pain Management and Medicine – to follow (local)
Understanding your condition
National services
Flippin Pain is a public health campaign to change the way pain is thought, talked about and treated. It contains information to help understand pain and stories from people who live with pain.
The Pain Toolkit gives help for people self managing persistent pain and healthcare teams who support them. It includes tools, resources and webinars.
Pain Toolkit - Pain Self Management by Pete Moore
Guidance on managing pain before and after surgery
BPS Patient Publications | British Pain Society
Versus Arthritis is a supportive resource and community supporting people with Arthritis.
Versus Arthritis | A future free from arthritis
Videos
Understanding Pain: Brainman stops his opioids - YouTube
Rethinking persistent pain video. Tame the Beast
Self Management
Local services
Pain Association Scotland is a Scottish charity that delivers professionally led self management pain education in the community and online. It has a Pain Self Management group in Fife.
Phone 0800 783 6059
The Fife Pain Management Jigsaw links to self management tools to support those living with long term pain.
The Fife Pain Management Jigsaw | NHS Fife
National services
Live Well with Pain is a website focused on the self management of pain providing resources for those living with persistent pain and those who support them.
Pain Concern provides information, resources and support for people living with pain and those who care for them. It also campaigns for people living with long term pain.
Includes a Navigator Tool to help raise concerns with Health Professionals
Self Management | Pain Concern
Nourish Support Centre support group to bring individuals living with chronic pain together to support each other. Meet twice a month at Nourish Support Centre. Cost of £2 per person.
Nourish, 1C Barclay Court, Mitchelson Estate, Kirkcaldy, KY1 3WE Tel: 01592 653639 Email: info@nourishsupportcentre.com
Sleep
National services
Sleepio is an online, science backed sleep improvement programme to help get to the root of stubborn sleep.
Booking Sleepio and Daylight programmes | Access Therapies Fife
Getting a good nights sleep is a downloadable leaflet on sleep including eating, drinking, physical activity, circadian rhythms, napping and sleep environment.
Support
Local services
The Well is a place where you can drop-in both in your community and online to find out information and receive general advice to help you stay well and independent.
Phone 03451 55 15 00
Fife Social Work contains links to the various services that social care provides including help for adults and older people, help for children and young people, violence against women and domestic and sexual abuse.
General phone enquiries 03451 55 00 00
Citizens Advice & Rights Fife provides information, advice and assistance to the people of Fife both online and in person.
Citizens Advice and Rights Fife
Phone 0345 140 0095
Fife shopping and support services is a charity providing charged for support to enable independent living.
Fife Shopping & Support Services
Collydean Cottage,
Pitmedden Loan,
Glenrothes
Phone 01592 653344
Fife Council’s Care at Home assessment and services help you live independently at home.
Fife Carers Centre provides information, practical help, workshops and assistance to take time out. Accept self referral and referrals.
Fife Carers Centre,
157 Commercial St,
Kirkcaldy.
Phone 01592 205472
Fife Young Carers – supports children and young people up to the age of 25 years who look after someone in their family who are ill or have a disability.
Unit H, Newark Road North, Glenrothes, KY7 4NT.
Tel: 01592 407262
Unpaid Carers Support – a small grants scheme that awards funding to carers to enable them to take short breaks and support Volunteer Carer Representatives at locality planning level across Fife.
Substance use and recovery
Local services
Drugs, Alcohol and Psychotherapies Limited (DAPL) offers free one to one counselling, support and advice to young people, adults and families in Fife who are affected by substance use issues and/or emotional distress. They are based in Leven and Kirkcaldy.
DAPL - Drugs, Alcohol & Psychotherapies Limited
Phone 01333 422277. Text 07584 233 877
ADAPT provides a drug and alcohol triage service in Fife, offering assessment of need and referral to specialist drug and alcohol services. They run recovery clinics throughout Fife.
ADAPT Substance Recovery | FASS
Phone 01592 321321
A pain condition doesn't mean that you are necessary disabled and does not mean that it could be forever. I fully advocate having a purpose; find things you can do and get enjoyment and a feeling of purpose from e.g. sports, hobbies and interaction. Sometimes focussing on the negative and what's wrong makes people depressed so a positive message can turn that around.
Health professional referrals
Local services
Referrals to Fife Leisure Trust
Health & Wellbeing | Fife Sports and Leisure Trusts (See Referral form)
Link Life Fife (community led support for mental health) referral
Link Life Fife | Fife Health and Social Care see referral form (for health professionals in Primary Care from GP Practices across Fife only). Health professionals can refer via SCI Gateway.
The Well referral
The Well | Fife Health and Social Care.
Health professionals can refer via SCI Gateway.
GP Corner - Access Therapies Fife - Referral to Silvercloud Programmes for help to reduce the symptoms of low mood, anxiety and stress via an online programme. Provides specific support for long term chronic conditions and mental health problems including a course in Chronic Pain.
GP Corner - Access Therapies Fife NHS (scot.nhs.uk)
Fife Pain Management Service - referral criteria for the Fife Pain Management Service can be found on FROG.
National services
Referrals to Pain Association Scotland
Healthcare Professionals | Pain Association (See Referral form)
Assessment tools
National services
Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ9) for use by health professionals. PHQ-9 Depression Test Questionnaire | Patient
Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD7)
GAD7 Anxiety Test Questionnaire | Patient
Medicines Decision Guide
Opioid Thermometer
Abbey Pain Scale
For assessing pain with Dementia or reduced cognitive function patients.
It can be helpful to engage with patient's relatives and carers when completing.
(Please note the hyperlink links to NHS Fife's internal communications channel, Stafflink. Stafflink authentication is required to view this tool.)
Guidance
Local services
HRPM Guidance on Stafflink
National services
NICE guidance on assessing all chronic pain and managing chronic primary pain in people aged 16 years and over.
NICE guidance on assessing low back pain and sciatica in people aged over 16 years.
Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management (nice.org.uk)
SIGN guidance on the Management of Chronic Pain.
Consultation tools
Local services
Health Literacy tools
https://sway.office.com/r5VRPhWn0XsaZ8vE?ref=Link&loc=play
National services
The Pain Concern Self-Management Navigator Tool is designed to help patients navigate their concerns and worries by bringing them up in appointments
Self-Management Navigator Tool - Pain ConcernPain Concern
The Pain Management Consultation Model for Primary Care by Dr Kieran Dinwoodie provides a guide for a structure with which to have meaningful conversations with patients which build trust and develop partnership working.
Chronic pain management for Primary Care MDTs toolkit by Kieran Dinwoodie & Martin Cardno is a consultation guide for MDTs and includes sample letters for patients to support medication reviews.
Primary Care Chronic Pain Management MDT
Pain Association Scotland local groups
Meeting Locations — Pain Association
Meetings in various Fife locations. Phone 0800 783 6059
Pain Concern helpline
Phone 0300 123 0789