Dr Peter Paisley graduated with honours in 2008 from the University of Aberdeen before completing Anaesthetic training in the West of Scotland. He was awarded a Masters of Science from Edinburgh University in 2011 for his dissertation on chronic pain management in pancreatitis. He obtained Fellowship status of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2014. He achieved Fellowship status from the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2017, and was presented the commendation merit award for outstanding performance in the examination.

Dr Paisley completed Advanced Pain Medicine training in 2017, gaining specialist skills in interventional pain medicine such as lumbar radiofrequency ablation for chronic low back pain. He was appointed as a Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Management in Glasgow in 2018. In 2019, he underwent additional specialist training in radiofrequency ablation for chronic knee pain at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. In 2021, he joined the interventional cancer pain service at Beatson West of Scotland cancer centre and is one of two regional experts in percutaneous cervical cordotomy.

He is an expert on radiofrequency ablation for a variety of conditions such as low back pain, shoulder pain and peripheral neuropathies.

Since 2019, Dr Paisley has also been both the Regional Advisor for Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and Deputy Training Programme Director for Anaesthetics for the West of Scotland region.

He has presented internationally on chronic pain management and is the first author on a number of publications in his field, some of which have been cited in national guidance.

Dr Paisley offers a holistic assessment of chronic pain conditions such as low back pain, nerve root pain, sciatica, chronic shoulder and knee pain, neuropathic pain, complex regional pain syndrome and fibromyalgia.

Please note, Dr Paisley requires a referral from a GP or hospital consultant. No appointments will be confirmed until this referral has been reviewed by the specialist team.

Dr Paisley recently hosted an online patient information event on pain management. You can register here to view this event on demand. 

• Low back and neck pain
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• Sciatica
• Chronic shoulder pain
• Chronic knee pain
• Post-surgical pain
• Neuropathic Pain
• Radiofrequency denervation for chronic shoulder pain
• Radiofrequency denervation for chronic knee pain
• Radiofrequency denervation for chronic testicular/post-hernia pain
• Radiofrequency denervation for occipital neuralgia
• Radiofrequency denervation for meralgia paraesthetica

• General Medical Council
• British Medical Association
• Royal College of Anaesthetists
• Faculty of Pain Medicine
• Medical and Dental Defence Union Scotland