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Scottish government told to ‘wake up’ to the A&E crisis

THE Scottish government must “wake up” to the crisis unfolding at Scotland’s A&E units, Scottish Labour said today. 

Statistics released this week have shown that only 71.3 per cent of people at A&E were seen within  four hours in the week ending October 10, equalling a record low set last month. 

Of this percentage, some 1,871 spent more than eight hours in A&E departments and 612 people waited longer than 12 hours. 

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