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More Scots waiting longer in A&E | |
(about 7 hours later) | |
New figures suggest Scotland's accident and emergency departments treated 91% of patients within four hours between October and December. | |
This compares to 94% in the previous quarter and is slightly worse than England's performance, where 92.6% of patients were treated in four hours. | |
The Scottish figure for October and November was 91.8% but that fell to 89.8% in December. | |
NHS Lanarkshire had the worst average figure over the period - at 85.5%. | |
The figure for NHS Lanarkshire in November was just 83% of patients to A&E seen, admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours. | |
In December, NHS Forth Valley (84.2%) and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (84.5%) were the worst performers. | |
NHS Tayside was the best health board for waiting times with 99% seen within four hours. | |
There was a slight increase in attendances compared to previous years. | |
Key Points | |
The number of attendances at A&E services across Scotland over the past three years were | |
During the quarter ending 31 December 2014, the proportion of attendances at A&E services that were seen, admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours were: | |
During the quarter, 4,028 patients spent more than eight hours in A&E and 517 spent more than 12 hours. | |
The statistics said 27% of attendances at A&E led to an admission to hospital. | |
Analysis | |
From next month the NHS in Scotland will be moving to monthly reporting of A&E waiting times. | |
Scots have been getting less information about the performance of their local emergency department than their counterparts in the rest of the UK, meaning the new figures are the first waiting time figures since September. | |
In England, hospitals publish A&E performance statistics weekly and by hospital, allowing more scrutiny of the performance of individual hospitals. | |
In Northern Ireland the public is given monthly performance figures by hospital. | In Northern Ireland the public is given monthly performance figures by hospital. |
Wales publishes monthly statistics by health board rather than hospital. | Wales publishes monthly statistics by health board rather than hospital. |
In Scotland the public has been only told how the NHS has performed every three months, and at health board level. | |
Because waiting times are combined over a three-month period, the poor performance of particular hospitals on particular days is sometimes not apparent, and figures relating to the busy New Year period are not included in Tuesday's release. |