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”.