Glasgow's health board has urged patients only to attend A&E if an issue is "life-threatening" after it emerged that 32% of attendances in one week at the board's flagship hospital were for minor injuries.
Health boards across the country have struggled to deal with normal service on top of the pandemic, leading to NHS Lanarkshire to move the highest available risk level - dubbed "Code Black" - on Thursday.
An email to staff said there was a "full-blown NHS crisis" and treatments including cancer procedures would be delayed. According to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 32% of attendances at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital A&E department were deemed not to be life threatening, with staff treating injuries including bruising, cut
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