An expert by experience, Tim Atkinson has suffered from chronic pain for over thirty years.

He is currently Vice-Chair of the British Pain Society’s Expert Patient and Carer Panel, a lived-experience trainer with Live Well With Pain, a volunteer for the charity Pain Concern and patient rep. for the Physiotherapy Pain Association.

He has co-authored academic research and helped create materials for the ‘Flippin Pain’ public information campaign and in 2021 published the memoir Where Does it Hurt? about his own pain journey.