From Public Health Scotland, yesterday for the quarter ending 31 March 2023:

Referrals to a chronic pain clinic are now back to levels seen prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the quarter ending 31 March 2023, 5,049 patients were referred, an increase of 5.5% on the previous quarter, when 4,787 patients were referred. Referrals are up by 4.3% compared to a year earlier, when there were 4,839 during the quarter ending 31 March 2022. There were 2,185 patients seen at a consultant-led chronic pain clinic during the quarter ending 31 March 2023, compared to 1,890 in the previous quarter, an increase of 15.6%. Of these, 63.3% waited 12 weeks or less, 10.1% waited between 13 and 24 weeks, 18.2% waited between 25 and 51 weeks and 8.4% waited 52 weeks or more.

https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/chronic-pain-waiting-times/chronic-pain-waiting-times-quarter-ending-31-march-2023/

Referrals are now at the highest level since June 2020 when the pandemic caused them to fall to 1 673.

The number of patients now being seen within the recommended 12 weeks or less has also increased to the highest level since the beginning of 2020.