Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterA local MSP has said there is a “crisis” in NHS Tayside’s Accident and Emergency Departments and across Scotland.NHS Tayside has said there has recently been a “marked increase” in people attending A&E at Perth Royal Infirmary and Ninewells.The health board is urging members of the public only to attend A&E if they have a “life-threatening emergency”.The request came after Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser said he found it “completely unacceptable” patients were being made to wait beyond the four-hour waiting standard.On the week ending August 1, 10.7 per cent of NHS Tayside’s A&E patients were not seen and treated within four hours.NHS Scotland guidance.
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