Scotland records worst A&E waiting times performance yet as critics blast 'unmitigated disaster'

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Accident and Emergency waiting times have hit their worst level on record once again, with just 71.3 per cent of patients seen within the four-hour target.

The latest weekly statistics reveal that 7,212 of the 25,123 people attending A&E departments across Scotland were not admitted, discharged or transferred four hours after arriving.

The Scottish Government ’s target is for 95 per cent of patients to be seen within the target time, but this has not been met since July 2020.

A record number of patients (591) were left waiting in A&E for more than 12 hours, according to data published by Public Health Scotland for the week ending October 3.The figures also show 1,782 people waited longer than eight hours — the second highest since records