Pain medicine, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick
Contact
Phone: (02) 9382 5434
About our service
The pain medicine service provide a comprehensive service to children suffering from pain disorders.
Chronic pain is often caused by an existing health condition and can be difficult to treat without a thorough assessment, appropriate medication or therapies and education.
The specialist team of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in the pain medicine team provide the following services:
- management of acute pain including opiate infusion, patient controlled analgesia, continuous epidural infusion and regional local anaesthetic blocks
- entonox (Nitrous Oxide) administration
- chronic pain management for inpatients and a multidisciplinary pain clinic
- educational service for health professionals.
Referral process for clinicians
Our department is using to manage referrals.鈥疶he Consultmed platform allows health professionals to send e-referrals to us securely. 鈥�
Consultmed questions and technical support: [email protected]
Referral and appointment process for parents and carers
Request a referral
To make an appointment at our clinic, you will need a referral from your GP, paediatrician or specialist.
They will assess your child, discuss your concerns, and make a referral to the appropriate service.鈥�
Track your referral
Our department uses Consultmed to manage referrals. Your referring clinician sends the e-referral to us using the secure Consultmed platform.鈥�
Once we receive the referral, we will send you an email with your tracking information. We will update you as we process the referral and book your appointment.
To receive these updates, please ask your referring clinician to include your email on the referral.鈥�
If your clinician has questions about Consultmed or require technical support, they can contact [email protected].
Need support?
If you need help or have questions about the referral and appointment process, please contact (02) (02) 9382 5434.
Clinic information
We offer a fortnightly full-day chronic pain clinic by referral only.
The service provides inpatient consultations and an intensive rehabilitation program for planned admissions and patients under consultation from other primary teams.
The service will also attend speciality clinics to review patients with complex pain issues at their post operative follow up appointment.
We offer allied health outpatient appointments at regular intervals between clinics. The allied health team provides quarterly full-day sessions for pain management to adolescents.
