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Where to get pain treatment
Pick a region. We will show the pain clinics that hold a contract with NFZ, the National Health Fund of Poland. We pull the data straight from NFZ at the moment you search.
You need a referral: a pain clinic will not see you without one. Any family doctor or any specialist contracted by NFZ can issue it. Ask for the organisational unit code 1222, or 1223 for children. It shortens the conversation at the desk.
This is NFZ data, not ours: waiting times come from reports the clinics send to NFZ once a month. That is a declaration a few weeks old, not a promised appointment. Call before you travel anywhere.
We publish no ranking: the list is ordered alphabetically by town. A shorter reported wait does not mean the clinic is better, nor that it will see you any sooner.
The names come from the NFZ dictionary of services. Children's pain clinics are few in Poland and some regions have none at all.
Data source: Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia, the Open Data interface https://api.nfz.gov.pl/
I write about phantom limb pain itself, about what helps, and about when to see a neurosurgeon, in a separate piece. Phantom limb pain after amputation.
Who runs this finder
Fundacja Świat Bioniki. We run a portal about prostheses and about life after amputation, and this is one of the tools we make available on it. The register of clinics belongs to NFZ, we only make searching it easier.
What happens when you search: your browser connects directly to the NFZ server. Your IP address and the query itself, meaning the region and the name of the service, reach NFZ. The portal never receives this data and stores it nowhere. Details in the privacy policy.