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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Neil Pooran & Lynn Love

High risk 'code red' patient waited longer than six hours for Scots ambulance

A high-risk "code-red" patient in Scotland waited longer than six hours for an ambulance, new data has showed.

Scottish Labour requested information on the longest response times for the highest-risk patients during each week of 2023.

The ambulance service's most serious categories of patients are "code purple" - where the risk of cardiac arrest is greater than 10% - and "code red", where the risk is between 1% and 10%.

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