A&E figures hit post-virus high
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.”