1000's of ambulances waited virtually two hours earlier than having the ability to drop off sufferers at A&E wards at Scottish hospitals final month.
Figures uncovered by Scottish Labour discovered that 2,731 ambulances had been delayed by at the very least one hour and 50 minutes in October.
And on the flagship Queen Elizabeth College Hospital in Glasgow the turnaround time was greater than three hours – with 69 ready three hours and 40 minutes within the week starting October 10.
Anas Sarwar at the moment warned Nicola Sturgeon that "lives shall be misplaced" if the scenario doesn't enhance.
Talking at First Minister's Questions, he stated: "This Authorities has no grip of the NHS disaster. Employees are being requested to do the unattainable. Sufferers are being requested to just accept the unacceptable. However this Authorities are nonetheless in denial.
"We now have rising queues at A&Es for therapy, ambulances off the highway for hours making an attempt to drop off sufferers, and folks ready in ache for assist to come back.
"All of that is earlier than we now have even reached the worst of winter. Lives shall be misplaced because of this. The Well being Secretary now says it’s going to take one other 5 years to repair the issue – an issue that has been 15 years within the making.
"After 15 years of SNP Authorities, sufferers shouldn’t have to attend a minute longer.”
Ambulance workers are among the many NHS staff who're threatening strike motion over a pay dispute.
Scottish Ambulance Service staff who're members of the GMB union and within the Higher Glasgow and Clyde well being board space voted overwhelmingly for industrial motion earlier this week.
Physiotherapists and midwifery workers have additionally backed a walkout over pay.
It comes as waits at emergency departments in Scotland have reached document highs, with 69 per cent of sufferers ready at the very least 4 hours to be admitted, transferred or discharged in September.
Anas Sarwar quoted from an ambulance driver who contacted Labour to inform of his issues from the entrance line.
The motive force stated: "Ready time on the Queen Elizabeth and elsewhere usually are not a post-pandemic difficulty, we now have been elevating this for so long as I’ve been within the service.
"However sadly, the instances are getting longer, sufferers are getting sicker, and it’s taking place in all seasons now – not solely the winter months.”
Sturgeon stated she would all the time take heed to issues from workers within the well being sector however careworn further funding is required from Westminster to sort out the disaster.
She added: "We take these obligations extraordinarily significantly each single day – each minute of each single day.
"However the truth of the matter is, the pressures on our NHS usually are not divorced from the broader budgetary points.”
The First Minister added the Welsh Labour Authorities had additionally expressed concern that the nation’s NHS shall be "hell on earth" with out further funding from Westminster.
Sturgeon continued: "How come it's the case that Labour in Wales can recognise that actuality, however Labour in Scotland is so clearly crammed to defending the Tories they're blind to that actuality?
"We are going to do every little thing we are able to when it comes to the administration of our NHS, however the truth of the matter is we do want extra funding for our NHS and that may solely come from selections which might be taken at Westminster."
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