Almost half of Lanarkshire A&E patients not seen within Scottish Government target

Almost half of patients at Lanarkshire’s A&E departments were not seen within the Scottish Government’s four hour target.

In the latest figures, only 53.8 per cent were seen at A&E within the four-hour target time at Hairmyres, Monklands and Wishaw hospitals.

A further 586 waited over eight hours and 209 waited over half a day to be seen.