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Lanarkshire hospitals at 'breaking point' as waiting time targets missed

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iOS - Android And for the week ending August 22, this dropped to 65.5 per cent of 4290 attendances - compared to 75.1 per cent across Scotland.

At Hairmyres in East Kilbride 64.1 per cent or patients were seen, admitted or discharged within four hours, with 453 waiting over four hours, 83 patients over eight hours and 17 over 12.

Staff at the coalface admit the system is failing. Emergency medicine consultant at Hairmyres, Calvin Lightbody, told us : "Our poor performance reflects the whole system is failing. “We depend on patient flow.

Just one day this month across Lanarkshire, we had 600 patients across our three hospitals.“Only 60 per cent of them were admitted or discharged within four hours.

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