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Daily Record
National
Tracy Carmichael

Rising covid cases are blamed for latest poor A&E figures

Bed blocking and covid cases are contributing to poor performance at Paisley’s struggling Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Those are the claims of NHS bosses as the facility’s under-pressure casualty department notched up its worst ever performance since 2015 last week - the second worst in Scotland for the second time in three months.

And poorly Renfrewshire residents are once again being urged to avoid the Corsebar Road hospital’s A&E department, unless their illness is “very urgent or life threatening”.

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