East Sussex MSK Community Pain Service

From 2 November 2026, Here started deliver of the East Sussex MSK Community Pain Service, bringing together clinical expertise, personalised care, community connection and lived experience to support people living with persistent musculoskeletal pain across East Sussex.  

The service is designed around a simple principle: persistent pain affects much more than physical health. It can affect confidence, independence, work, relationships, emotional wellbeing and people’s ability to participate in everyday life. Support therefore needs to consider the whole person and what matters most to them.  

A more personalised, connected approach 

The service will combine specialist pain support with a  focus on personalised care, supported self-management and connection with community resources. 

Personalised conversations will start with “What matters to you?”, helping people identify their goals and the support that is most relevant to their lives. Alongside clinical support, the wider model includes Pain Navigators, Pain Cafés, peer support, social prescribing and links with voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations and local networks.  

Where support does not need to take place in a clinical setting, our ambition is to bring it closer to home and connect people with the places, organisations and relationships that already exist within their communities.  

Find out more about the East Sussex MSK Community Pain Service on the service website East Sussex MSK Community Pain Service

Information for patients and referrers

This Here webpage is primarily for health and care partners and organisations interested in working with the service. 

People looking for information about their own care, who the service is for, how to access support, appointments, referrals or self-management resources, visit East Sussex MSK Community Pain Service