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From Public Health Scotland, today:
During the quarter ending 31 December 2023, 2,221 patients were seen at a consultant-led chronic pain clinic. This compares to 2,005 patients in the previous quarter, an increase of 10.8% and to 1,890 patients seen a year earlier in the quarter ending 31 December 2022, an increase of 17.5%.
Of those seen at a consultant-led clinic, 1,124 (50.6%) had waited 12 weeks or less to be seen, which is similar to the experience of patients seen in 2019.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there were on average, 4,963 patients waiting at the end of each quarter during 2019. When services were impacted, the waiting list reduced due largely to reduced referrals in the period April 2020 to March 2021. The trend since then has generally been upwards to more than 5 000 at the end of September 2023 and 4 687 last quarter.
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