Almost half of A&E patients at Lanarkshire hospitals waited more than four hours

Almost half of all patients at Lanarkshire’s three A&E departments were forced to wait more than four hours to be seen by a medic.

Official statistics, published by Public Health Scotland, have shown that only 51.9 per cent of A&E patients were seen in under four hours in NHS Lanarkshire in the week ending September 11 – the second lowest rate in Scotland.

This means that, in just one week, almost 2000 patients waited more than four hours to be seen at an NHS Lanarkshire hospital.