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The number of people waiting more than four hours in Scotland's accident and emergency units reached record high levels in the last week of the year. | The number of people waiting more than four hours in Scotland's accident and emergency units reached record high levels in the last week of the year. |
The latest weekly figures show that just 78% of patients across Scotland were seen within the target time. | The latest weekly figures show that just 78% of patients across Scotland were seen within the target time. |
This was well below the Scottish government's 95% target, and the lowest since the weekly figures began in February 2015. | This was well below the Scottish government's 95% target, and the lowest since the weekly figures began in February 2015. |
In the same week in 2016 there were 92.5% were treated within four hours. | |
In the week before Christmas this year the figure for those being seen was 83.3%, up from the previous record low of 81.1% in the week before. | |
The latest figures show there 25,865 attendances at emergency departments across Scotland in the week to 31 December. | |
Of these, 5,686 were not dealt with within the four-hour target. | |
The statistics show that 1,156 (4.5%) patients spent more than eight hours in an emergency department. | |
There were 272 (1.1%) patients who spent more than 12 hours in A&E. | There were 272 (1.1%) patients who spent more than 12 hours in A&E. |
The worst performing health board area was NHS Forth Valley which saw just 57.3% within the target time. | |
Greater Glasgow (71.1%), Lothian (76.2%) and Lanarkshire (76.8%) also missed the target time in about a quarter of cases. | |
NHS Grampian (87.9%), NHS Highland (87.6%) and NHS Tayside (87.3%) were the best performing mainland health boards. |