A complete of 141 sufferers waited longer than 12 hours to be admitted, transferred or discharged at A&E hospitals in Ayrshire and Arran, new figures present.
And an additional 237 sufferers confronted agonising waits of greater than eight hours, once more at native A&E departments.
The figures come from Public Well being Scotland and canopy the week ending Sunday, March 13.
In NHS Ayrshire & Arran, solely 71.3 per cent of A&E sufferers have been seen throughout the four-hour normal, falling nicely in need of the Scottish Authorities’s 95 per cent goal.
The figures have been met with dismay by some Ayrshire politicians who blame well being secretary Humza Yousaf for the continued disaster.
South Scotland Labour MSP Colin Smyth mentioned: “We now have the best ready occasions for A&E on document.
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“Consultants have warned that lives have been misplaced in elements of Scotland as a result of disaster in A&E. Authorities ministers must get up to the disaster and act.”
Jamie Greene, Conservative MSP for the West Scotland area, mentioned: “A&E ready occasions proceed to be completely unacceptable and duty lies with the beleaguered well being secretary. Our NHS is clearly not secure within the SNP’s palms.”
South Scotland Conservative MSP Sharon Dowey added: “After months of lacking A&E ready time targets, Humza Yousaf isn’t doing a lot to enhance these ready occasions.
“The A&E ready time targets haven’t been reached as soon as this yr, and it’s surprising that the closest we acquired to the 95 per cent goal was in January, the place 74 per cent of sufferers have been seen.
“Humza Yousaf wants to recollect that he's the well being secretary, and that he’s being paid a ministerial wage to supervise and enhance the nation’s well being – as a substitute of banging the drum for Scottish independence. That’s why he should take duty for these failures.”
Mr Yousaf mentioned the Covid pandemic was persevering with to “take its toll” on the NHS and the most recent figures “continued to underline the extent of the stress on companies.”
He added: “We're at the moment seeing document excessive ranges of Covid transmission and extra folks in our hospitals with Covid than at any time throughout the pandemic. This rise has inevitably had an affect on companies like A&E.”
SNP MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Elena Whitham, mentioned A&E ready occasions have been "not the place we'd need them to be" and claimed the extent of "continued stress" on the well being service was "difficult" on account of "relentless demand and stress" on it for 2 years.
She added: "The latest rise in circumstances and hospitalisations, double what they have been in February, on account of Covid, have fortunately not translated into a rise within the quantity of people that require intensive care therapy, however that does affect on different healthcare companies.”
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