Scottish A&E waiting times worst on record
Performance on waiting times targets at Scotland's hospital A&E units has hit a new low.showed just 63.5% of patients were dealt with within four hours.
The Scottish government target is that 95% of patients attending A&E are seen and subsequently admitted or discharged within four hours.It began publishing weekly A&E statistics in February 2015 over concerns that the figure had dropped to 86%.In the latest weekly figures from Public Health Scotland, 27,097 attended A&E and a record number waited more than four hours .
Mr Yousaf said the impact of the pandemic continued to affect health services across the rest of the UK and globally.showed 71.4% of patients were seen within four hours in August, although the performance at the busiest type 1 A&Es was just 58%. Dr Gulhane, Scottish Tory health spokesman, said the figures were extremely alarming for patients and staff because excess delays lead to avoidable deaths.
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