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Tracy Carmichael

Health board urges residents to avoid A&E once more as figures show improvement

The Royal Alexandra Hospital's A&E department is making a slow recovery following the fresh spike in covid cases that helped cripple services.

Fresh figures show 67.3 per cent of the 1,023 patients who passed through the doors of the hospital's emergency department in the week ending April 17 were treated in line with the Scottish Government's four hour waiting time target.

It marks a long-awaited turnaround in the fortunes of the Corsebar Road hospital after months of struggles amidst growing A&E waits, which were amongst the worst in Scotland.

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