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Current NHS consultant posts held

Medical Director and Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine at North Manchester General Hospital

Research interests

Pain and Symptom Control
Health Inequalities

Personal interests

Mountain Biking
Cookery, World food and music

Awards received

Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians

Publications

Percutaneous cervical cordotomy for cancer-related pain: national data BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 2020;0:1–6. doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-002057

Burton, C., Williams, L., Makin, M. et al. Syst Rev (2019) 8: 194. Understanding how and why de-implementation works in health and care: research protocol for a realist synthesis of evidence https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1111-8
Makin MK. Pharmacological Management of Cancer Pain in: Complex Cancer Pain (Editor Manohar Sharma) 2014 Oxford University Press; Oxford
Makin MK. Upper G.I. Cancer Pain in: Complex Cancer Pain (Editor Manohar Sharma) 2014 Oxford University Press; Oxford

Makin MK. J. Ellershaw, A. Leach, M. Poolman, M. Sharma, G. Jeffers and J. Bridson The results of the invasive neurodestructive procedures in cancer pain pilot study (INPIC) What is the role of cordotomy in pain associated with malignant mesothelioma? BMJ Support Palliat Care 2012;2:1 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000264.2

Makin MK. Methadone in: Opioids in Cancer Pain (Editor Karen Forbes) 2007 Oxford University Press; Oxford

Morley JS, Bridson J, Nash TP, Miles JB, White S, Makin MK. Low-dose methadone has an analgesic effect in neuropathic pain: a double-blind randomized controlled crossover trial. Palliat Med. 2003 Oct;17(7):576-87.

MK Makin “Scientific evidence and expert clinical opinion for the clinical utility of co- analgesia” In Key Advances in the Effective Management of Cancer Pain: Eds Hillier R, Finlay I, Welsh J, Miles A. London Aescupulis Medical Press 2002 p57-70

MK Makin. New directions in opioid use Journal of the Royal Soc of Med 2001; 94:p17-21

M Stringer, MK Makin ,JB Miles, JS Morley d-morphine but not l-morphine , has low micromolar affinity for the non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) site in rat forebrain. Neuroscience letters 2000; 295:p 21-24

MK Makin and JS Morley. Subcutaneous methadone in the terminally ill. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2000; Vol 19; 4: p237-238 (letter)



MK Makin, A Coackley, H Duckitt, J Fleming, J Skinner, JE Ellershaw. Adverse events during methadone therapy for chronic pain. Palliative Medicine 2000; Vol 14; 4: p351 (Research abstract)


MK Makin and JE Ellershaw Substitution of another opioid for morphine. British Medical Journal 1998; 317:p81 (letter)