BRUTAL WINTER STORM FOR NHS
Daily Record|November 06, 2024
Waiting times at record levels
KATRINE BUSSEY
BRUTAL WINTER STORM FOR NHS

THE health service could be facing a "brutal winter storm", clinicians have warned government ministers.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) urged a rethink of planning as the latest A&E waiting times figures showed 41,073 patients waited more than four hours before being admitted, transferred or discharged.

It's the highest total ever recorded fo r September, Public Health Scotland figures revealed.

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