diff --git a/src/plugins/intel_gpu/src/kernel_selector/cl_kernels/pa_sdpa_opt.cl b/src/plugins/intel_gpu/src/kernel_selector/cl_kernels/pa_sdpa_opt.cl
index f38b6cd89974ad..06e83c5adb3e6b 100644
--- a/src/plugins/intel_gpu/src/kernel_selector/cl_kernels/pa_sdpa_opt.cl
+++ b/src/plugins/intel_gpu/src/kernel_selector/cl_kernels/pa_sdpa_opt.cl
@@ -112,7 +112,14 @@ KERNEL(pa_sdpa_opt)(
                                head_num_idx * HEAD_SIZE +
                                query_idx_local;
 
-        slm_query[query_idx_local] = BLOCK_READN(INPUT0_TYPE, 1, query, query_idx);
+        INPUT0_TYPE q_val = BLOCK_READN(INPUT0_TYPE, 1, query, query_idx);
+
+        // Apply scale value directly to the query input to improve accuracy in case of a high range of input data
+#ifdef SCALE_VAL
+        q_val = TO_INPUT0_TYPE(SCALE_VAL) * q_val;
+#endif
+
+        slm_query[query_idx_local] = q_val;
 
         barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
 #else
@@ -122,6 +129,11 @@ KERNEL(pa_sdpa_opt)(
                                    head_num_idx * HEAD_SIZE +
                                    i * SUBGROUP_SIZE;
             q_val[i] = BLOCK_READN(INPUT0_TYPE, 1, query, query_idx);
+
+            // Apply scale value directly to the query input to improve accuracy in case of a high range of input data
+#ifdef SCALE_VAL
+            q_val[i] = TO_INPUT0_TYPE(SCALE_VAL) * q_val[i];
+#endif
         }
 #endif
 
@@ -162,10 +174,6 @@ KERNEL(pa_sdpa_opt)(
                 }
             }
 
-#ifdef SCALE_VAL
-            qk_acc = TO_INPUT0_TYPE(SCALE_VAL) * qk_acc;
-#endif
-
             const uint token_idx = partition_idx * SEQ_LEN_PARTITION_SIZE + block_num * SUBGROUPS_PER_WG * SUBGROUP_SIZE + sgid * SUBGROUP_SIZE + sglid;
 
 #ifdef HAS_ALIBI
diff --git a/src/plugins/intel_gpu/src/plugin/ops/paged_attention.cpp b/src/plugins/intel_gpu/src/plugin/ops/paged_attention.cpp
index 5d07488c676847..e4e7dcb77e03fb 100644
--- a/src/plugins/intel_gpu/src/plugin/ops/paged_attention.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/intel_gpu/src/plugin/ops/paged_attention.cpp
@@ -30,7 +30,17 @@ static void CreatePagedAttentionExtensionOp(ProgramBuilder& p, const std::shared
     auto query_ps = op->get_input_partial_shape(0);
     auto head_size = key_cache_ps[2].get_length();
     auto kv_heads_num = key_cache_ps[1].get_length();
-    auto heads_num = query_ps[1].get_length() / head_size;
+
+    // WA: in some cases, the query input may have a bounded dimension
+    // Use input shape of the input node in such cases
+    auto heads_num = 0;
+    auto query_merged_dim = query_ps[1];
+    if (query_merged_dim.is_static()) {
+        heads_num = query_merged_dim.get_length() / head_size;
+    } else {
+        auto reshape_input = op->get_input_node_shared_ptr(0)->get_input_partial_shape(0);
+        heads_num = reshape_input[2].get_length();
+    }
 
     prim.head_size = head_size;
     prim.kv_heads_num = kv_heads_num;