Hunter Integrated Pain Service (HIPS) provides multidisciplinary assessment and treatment for people with chronic non-cancer and cancer pain. The Acute Pain Service at John Hunter Hospital is linked to HIPS and manages post-operative and post-trauma pain.

HIPS also works collaboratively with the Complex Paediatric Pain Team at John Hunter Children's Hospital and the Palliative Care team at the Newcastle Calvary Mater Hospital.

The HIPS team includes clerical, nursing, physiotherapy and psychology staff, along with doctors from anaesthesia, liaison psychiatry and pain medicine.

HUNTER INTEGRATED PAIN SERVICE (HIPS)

Hunter Integrated Pain Service (HIPS)

Support for GPs and other primary care professionals
• Pre-consultation telephone or telehealth advice for GPs
• Post consultation telephone advice for GPs
Research Interests
• Non pharmacological management, analgesia and sedation for painful procedures in children
• Pain in connective tissue disorders and other rare diseases of childhood

Services offered
• Education and advice
• Medical reviews
• Multidisciplinary assessment
• Pain program (see The Children's Hospital at Westmead LEAP program below). A local education and support program for parents of children with chronic pain is under development
• Telehealth service delivery to GP rooms, community health centres or to homes where broadband internet access if available
• Treatment planning and appointments with health professionals e.g. psychology and physiotherapy
• Hydrotherapy (by referral)

Special areas of interest chronic pain and
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
• Headache, abdominal pain, widespread pain
• Improving access for families of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin
• Neonates, children and adolescents
• Pain in neonates
• Pain in rare diseases of childhood, including cancer
• Procedural pain and medical traumatic stress

John Hunter Children's Hospital - Children's Complex Pain Service

Newcastle Pain Management

Innervate Pain Management is a team of Psychologists & Clinical Psychologists specialising in the management of pain.
Able to help with ongoing persistent pain and assisting with the effect this is having on your life.
Innervate Pain Management form part of a multidisciplinary pain management group and are able to treat the individual with a holistic approach.
Also welcoming patients with other psychological needs.
Medicare, Workers Compensation, CTP, DVA, EAP, private health

Telehealth capable

INNERVATE PAIN MANAGEMENT

Services offered
• Education and advice
• Multidisciplinary assessment
• Pain program
• Treatment planning and appointments with Health professionals e.g. psychology and physiotherapy
• Multidisciplinary case conferencing

Special areas of interest chronic pain and
• Trauma

Support for GPs and other primary care professionals
• Pre-consultation telephone advice for GPs
• Post consultation telephone advice for GPs

Gosford Hospital - Pain Clinic

Central Coast Integrated Pain Service

Dr Glen Sheh

Team
• Clinical Psychology
• Nurse Consultant
• Nurse Specialists
• Pain Specialist
• Physiotherapist
• Psychiatrist
• Rheumatologists

Services offered
• Education and training
• Medical reviews
• Multidisciplinary/individual assessment
• Multidisciplinary pain conference
• Pain programs (see below)
• Treatment planning and appointments with health professionals e.g. pain medicine specialists, psychology and physiotherapy

Procedures offered
• Nerve blocks
• Pump implants
• Pump refills
• Radiofrequency neurotomy
• Spinal blocks
• Spinal stimulators

Special areas of interest chronic pain and
• Adult and elderly patients
• Education/training for health care providers and pain sufferers
• Intrathecal drug delivery systems (IDDS), spinal cord stimulators, Dorsal Root Ganglion stimulators
• Medication rationalisation and withdrawal
• Orofacial pain
• Prevention of secondary disability
• Return to work
• Self management
• Spinal cord injury/Nerve injury

Support for your primary care professionals
• Invitations to join case conference
• Pre-consultation telephone advice for GPs upon request
• Post consultation telephone advice for GPs upon request
• Reporting to referring providers
• Presentations to Medicare and Allied Health groups on request and via seminars organized at RNSH
• Support to primary care professions following discharge

Research Interests
• Basic science on pain mechanisms and development of new treatments
• Contribution of psychological and social factors to pain, its treatment, and its impact on lifestyle
• Contributors to patient outcomes from treatment
• Development and evaluation of pain assessment and management measures
• Development of psychological and social treatments for pain
• Disability prevention in injured workers
• Drug trials
• Outcome evaluation (of all treatments)
• Pain education and training in pain management skills
• Psycho-physiological studies

Royal North Shore Hospital - Pain Management Clinic

Pain Management at a primary care level including: - medication monitoring - injectables - acupuncture - patient education
Quantum Pain Management provides accessible pain management at a primary care level. Dr Roberta Chow has provided pain management services in the Hills area for 30 years. The practice has 3 rooms and 3 practitioners. We have parking on the premises and a referral is not required.

Quantum Pain Management

Team
• Nurse consultant
• Pain Specialist
• Physiotherapist
• Psychology

Services offered
• Education and advice
• Medical reviews
• Multidisciplinary assessment
• Pain program (see below)
• Multidisciplinary case conferencing
• Telehealth consultations
• Treatment planning and appointments with health professionals e.g. psychology and physiotherapy

Procedural service
No - available through linkage to Royal North Shore Hospital

Support for GPs and other primary care professionals
• Pre-consultation telephone advice for GPs
• Post consultation telephone advice for GPs
• Once yearly GP talks
• Telehealth consultations

Special areas of interest chronic pain and
• Elderly
• Nerve injury
• Rehabilitation focus post stroke / amputation
• Spinal Cord Injury

Research interests
• Brain imaging of pain
• Contribution of existential issues to the experience of pain
• Management of pain in spinal cord injury
• Pain and dementia
• Pain and neuroplasticity

Greenwich Hospital Pain Clinic

Assistance with pain relief for conditions such as back pain, lower back pain, spinal pain, slipped disc, herniated disc, bulging disc, sciatica pain, nerve pain, visceral pain, facial pain, headache syndromes, fibromyalgia, cancer-related pains, chronic pain and various other pain syndromes.

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