A&E waiting-times target missed in week leading up to Christmas
Scotland's accident-and-emergency (A&E) departments missed a key waiting-times target in the week leading up to Christmas.
Scotland's accident-and-emergency (A&E) departments missed a key waiting-times target in the week leading up to Christmas.
The latest figures show that in the week ending December 25, 93.5% of the 22,267 patients who attended were seen and either admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.
This is below the Scottish Government target for 95% of cases to be dealt with in that time.
A total of 75 (0.3%) patients spent more than eight hours in A&E while six patients (less than 0.1%) waited for more than 12 hours.
Separate figures show the target was also missed for the month of November, with 93.6% of 129,233 patients seen within the target time.
Over the month, 730 (0.6%) patients waited for more than eight hours in A&E while 131 (0.1%) were there for more than 12 hours.
The seven health boards that missed the target during the month were NHS Lothian, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Fife, NHS Dumfries and Galloway and NHS Ayrshire and Arran.