Nicola Sturgeon is facing demands for an inquiry into avoidable deaths connected to the emergency care after finding herself on the defensive over the SNP’s handling of the NHS crisis.
The First Minister said she took full responsibility for the A&E responses which have seen people waiting hours for treatment in Scottish hospitals.
Sturgeon was confronted in a Sunday morning tv interview with statistics from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine showing more 300 people have died this year as a direct result of long waits in Scottish A&E departments.
Andrew Marr highlighted cases previously reported in the Daily Record, citing “a pensioner from Glasgow died after waiting 40 hours for an ambulance and there’s an 86 year old woman in
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