Ministers urged to act over 'crisis' in Scotland's A&E departments

The Scottish Government's target is to have 95 percent of patients be seen within four hours

MINISTERS are being urged to address the “crisis” in Scotland’s accident and emergency departments as new figures showed that three out of 10 patients waited longer than the four-hour target time in the first full week of June.

Of the 27,034 patients who attended A&E in the week ending June 12, a total of 69.2% were seen and either admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.