Terminally ill people in Scotland are dying in pain after being unable to get the care they need due to "inadequate" out-of-hours services, a charity has warned.
Marie Curie said that new research found a lack of services during the evenings and weekends in the community was leaving many patients resorting to attending at emergency departments.
The UK study, funded by end of life charity Marie Curie, found that there were more than 130,000 visits to A&E in Scotland by people in the last year of their life in 2020, and that more than 80,000 of these happened out of hours.
