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As of 18 February 2009, there were 224 males held in HMP Aberdeen. There were no female prisoners. The male population was made up of 84 Remand and 140 Convicted prisoners.

NHS Ayrshire and Arran holds four clinics and three treatment sessions per week for pain management.

NHS Borders holds one pain clinic for new referrals three times per week.

NHS Dumfries and Galloway routinely has two pain clinics per week with regular additional clinics.

NHS Fife holds five hospital-based clinics per week and three primary care-based sessions per week in West Fife.

NHS Forth Valley runs one multi-professional clinic over two sites, providing a total of 17 medical sessions per month.

NHS Grampian holds two pain clinics per week.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde holds 26 general out-patient pain clinics and one specialist clinic for spinal cord stimulation per week. The board also operates a chronic pain Managed Clinical Network (MCN), with Scottish Government pump-priming funding.

NHS Highland holds three pain clinics per month.

NHS Lanarkshire holds five consultant-led clinics, three nurse-led clinics and one GP-led clinic per week, as well as an intervention session enabling patients to go to theatre for intervention such as epidurals.

NHS Lothian holds one clinic daily at the Western General Hospital; full-day clinic every two weeks from the Royal Infirmary, and a pain management programme undertaken over an 11 week period, with daily assessment appointments, at the Astley Ainslie Hospital.

NHS Orkney holds one pain clinic as and when required.

NHS Shetland holds two pain clinics per week.

NHS Tayside holds three clinics at three different locations per week.

NHS Western Isles holds one pain clinic as and when required.

In addition, the Pain Association Scotland works with NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Fife, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Grampian, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Highland, NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Tayside in the delivery of pain management services which help people living with chronic pain to manage their own condition. The association''s training courses in Shetland are delivered using telehealth approaches.

HMP Grampian will provide around 500 prisoner places (roughly the current combined capacity of HMP Aberdeen and HMP Peterhead), supporting the demand for places within the Northern Community Justice Authority (CJA), excluding those accommodated in HMP Inverness. SPS proposes to work closely with the Northern CJA to create a community facing prison which supports this objective. The accommodation will be flexible by design but precise numbers of available spaces for male and female prisoners have still to be decided.

The design capacity of the current prison at Peterhead is 306.

The current design capacity of HM Prison Aberdeen is 155. Both male and female prisoners can be held at the establishment.