FoI Number
2025-042
Subject
Chronic Pain
Date Received
14/04/2025
Request and Response
  1. Staffing for your Chronic Pain clinics (which deal mainly with outpatients) per each of the following:

Staff Member

FTE hours per week

Numbers

Pain Consultant

0

Services delivered by Anaesthetists as part of role but no dedicated role

 

Pain Psychologist

0

 

Nurse

0

 

Physiotherapist

0

Delivered as part of generalist specialist roles

 

Occupational Therapist

0

0

Administration

0

 

Other

0

 

 

  1. What is the annual budget from your Board for chronic pain specialist clinic work, physical and mental health?

There is no ear-marked budget for specialist clinic work as delivered as part of other services/delivered by clinicians as part of generalist specialist work.

  1. Number of referrals of patients in your last complete year, physical and mental health.

No specific clinics recorded as part of general service.

  1. Do you sometimes refer patients to other NHS Board areas - if so, how many times in a recent year?

 People can be referred to tertiary services – Glasgow Pain Management Program and some may be referred to health board through SLA with NHS Grampian.