{"id":673116,"date":"2022-10-20T14:19:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T14:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=673116"},"modified":"2022-10-20T14:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T14:24:03","slug":"nhs-in-scotland-holds-record-for-number-of-ae-patients-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/nhs-in-scotland-holds-record-for-number-of-ae-patients-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS in Scotland Holds Record for Number of A&E Patients Waiting!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scotland have broken a new record but not one that should be there. The NHS staff were extremely busy one day and that resulted in a massive wait time in A&E. There was over 3000 patients waiting to be seen to and the wait time was over what you would expect it to be. 3,553 patients waited over 8 hours to be seen to.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stats show that the week ending with the 9th of Octobers, there were 3,000+ patients waiting an approximately 8 hours before being seen to. With an extra 1000+ waiting for 12 hours.<\/p>\n

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said Covid-19 continued to impact performance.<\/p>\n

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The number of people going to A&E in Scotland has seemingly went down as figures show that. The Scottish government are trying to target 95% of patients attending A&E are seen to and discharged in a few hours.<\/p>\n

But for the second week in a row that percentage was 64.2%.<\/p>\n

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“The latest shocking figures show the highest ever number of people who had to wait over eight hours, and another week where over 1,500 patients waited over half a day in our emergency departments. This is nothing short of a scandal.” Public health spokeswoman Tess White said<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Scotland have broken a new record but not one that should be there. The NHS staff were extremely busy one day and that resulted in a massive wait time in A&E. There was over 3000 patients waiting to be seen to and the wait time was over what you would expect it to be. 3,553…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":673118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673119,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673116\/revisions\/673119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}