New weekly figures from Public Health Scotland stated that only 60.4 percent of emergency patients were seen within four hours during the week ending 11 September 2022.
Scotland’s Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said the level of performance in particular sites, such as Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary, are “just not acceptable”, even in the face of the pressures health systems are facing.
“Notwithstanding all the pressures we’re facing, [...] I want to give assurances that the government is focused on immediate improvement particularly in our most challenging sites and the reasons why we have this level of challenge of course are continued impacts and effects of the pandemic,” Yousaf said.
