The Scotsman

A&E figures hit post-virus high

- By KATRINE BUSSEY

There were more than 112,000 attendance­s at Scottish accident and emergency (A&E) ward sin July–the highest monthly figure since before the coronaviru­s lockdown.

Health secretary Jeane Freeman welcomed data showing more than 95 per cent of patients seen were discharged, admitted or transferre­d within the four-hour target.

Figures from Public Health Scotland showed 112,173 attendance sat A&E services during July. A total of 302 patients (0.3 per cent) spent longer than eight hours waiting to be seen, while 31 had to wait longer than 12 hours. A&E attendance­s were at their lowest level in April at 65,114.

They have been rising on a monthly basis since then, but are still below last year’s levels.

Ms Freeman said :“More than nine in ten people who attended A& E in the latest week were discharged, admitted or transferre­d within four hours.”

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