A quarter of patients in hospital accident and emergency departments were not treated in the target time, with almost 500 having to wait 12 hours or more to be dealt with, the latest figures show.
Data for the week ending February 6 showed 74.4% of patients in A&E were admitted to hospital, transferred or discharged within four hours – down from 75.6% of patients the previous week and well below the Scottish Government target of 95%.
