One in three of all emergency patients were kept waiting for more than four hours in Lothian hospitals’ accident units at the start of July, new government figures show.
The Tories slammed the SNP for focussing on another independence referendum rather than working to improve health services and reducing A&E wait times. But the Scottish Government said NHS has been under immense pressure from the pandemic and Scotland still has the best performing health board in the UK.
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