The Health and Wellbeing Check – how it all began

29th August 2025 | David Andrassy

In the week that Live Well with Pain launches its highly regarded Health and Wellbeing Check in an innovative interactive format, we ask: how did it all begin?

Live Well with Pain originally developed the Health and Wellbeing Check as a paper questionnaire for clinicians to use with their patients.
It built on some of the most highly regarded assessment tools used internationally. And it went further, recognising that the impact of pain goes way beyond its physical effects.
Pain affects all aspects of people’s lives. The Health and Wellbeing Check was designed to reflect this. It takes a holistic approach, capturing the psychological and social impacts of pain as well as the physical.
Since putting it on the website in 2023, Live Well with Pain reports that the PDF version has been downloaded by practitioners over 3,000 times. And it’s been reprinted many thousands of times more. Feedback has consistently shown it is highly effective at helping people with pain to identify their needs and move forward.
Now Live Well with Pain has taken the Health and Wellbeing Check to the next level. By creating an online interactive version, they’re opening it up to more people. And because it’s now available to all, the aim is for people with pain to start using it themselves.
Pain self-management is about people taking control of their pain and learning effective ways to overcome its debilitating effects. By putting this tried and tested assessment tool in their hands, the new online Health and Wellbeing Check is designed to offer people living with pain a vital first step on that journey.

 

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Save it for later

One of the novel aspects of the new Health and Wellbeing Check is the ability to save your completed questionnaire as a PDF. This means a person going to an appointment with their health care practitioner can now take along a printed copy.
We’ve all experienced coming away from a consultation wishing we’d remembered to tell the practitioner something vital, that somehow slipped our mind while we were there. That’s why the advice is always to “write it down beforehand and take it with you.”
Well now, thanks to Health and Wellbeing Check’s “Save your PDF” function, you can!

Try it for yourself