Patient services at the Pain Management and Research Centre

The Pain Management & Research Centre (PMRC) is a purpose designed clinical facility on the 9th floor of Royal North Shore Hospital constructed with funds donated by the business community and the general public.

• It is in a separate area to the main hospital
• both insured and non-insured patients are assessed and treated.

The activities of the Centre include:

• a large clinical service for acute, subacute, chronic and cancer pain (46,000 episodes of patient care per annum)
• a postgraduate education program
• a clinical and basic research program with an emphasis on neuropathic pain
• clinical research including a pain epidemiology unit.