Mission Statement

The NWPF was formed in 2007 and has three basic aims. These include:

1. Patient benevolence – providing financial and material support to pain patients with needs not covered by healthcare providers
2. Education – bringing pain experts to educate local faculty while sending local healthcare providers to conferences to learn new techniques
3. Local Research – fostering local research by healthcare providers as they endeavour to carry out research projects

Some examples of these aims being met have included the provision of financial support for a family from rural BC needing to stay in Vancouver where a family member attended a pain clinic, bringing various world experts in pain management to Vancouver for group learning events, providing bursaries to residents to attend pain-related conferences, and sponsoring Video Pain Rounds.