Weekly Scottish Emergency Department waiting times worst on record

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The weekly update (w/e 20 March 2022) of Emergency Department activity and waiting time statistics show: There were 25,506 attendances in week ending 20 March 2022 Four-hour performance was 66.2%, the lowest on record 8,610 patients were delayed by four hours or more, this is the highest on record and means one third of all […]

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Gender reconstructive surgery – winning the waiting game

When it comes to gender reconstructive surgery, if you could sum-up the patient experience in one word, chances are you’d use ‘waiting’. The patient may have known from their early teens they weren’t comfortable in their own skin, yet they were forced to wait until they could do anything about it. If they initially sought help […]

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Long waits in A&E this winter

Quarterly performance figures from NHS England show that long waits in A&E departments are rising sharply. in January to March of 2012, just 15 patients waited for over 12 overs to be admitted. In January to March of 2017 this figure rose to 1,597 – an increase of 10,546%. The figures show just how bad […]

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