NHS Forth Valley reveal some patients waiting for almost a day as A&E data reported

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Twenty-seven patients waited longer than 23 hours in Forth Valley Royal’s A&E and Minor Injuries Unit in October, NHS bosses revealed.Overall compliance with the four-hour target in October was 53.2 per cent.In the Minor Injuries Unit compliance was 99.4 per cent and the Emergency Department 45.5 per cent.A total of 2,654 patients waited longer than the four-hour target across both the A&E and Minor Injuries Unit (MIU); with 1,304 waits longer than eight hours and 595 waits longer than 12 hours.A NHS Forth Valley health board meeting heard the main reason for patients waiting beyond four hours continues to be wait for first assessment with a cohort of 1,458 patients, although this is a reduction from 1,488 in October.Wait for a bed accounted for 670 patients waiting beyond four hours with clinical reasons accounting for 161 breaches.In October there were 497 new attendances to Rapid Assessment and Care Unit (RACU), 149 of which were via A&E.For Scheduled Care, at the end of October, the number of patients on the waiting list for a first outpatient appointment was 17,659 – compared with 18,853 in October 2022 with the number waiting beyond 12 weeks 7,872 compared to 7,802 last October.The number of inpatients/day cases waiting increased to 4,987 from 4,115 in October 2022 with an associated increase in those waiting beyond 12 weeks.At the end of October, 4,050 patients were waiting beyond the six-week standard for imaging with 424 patients waiting beyond six weeks for endoscopy.Cancer target compliance in September 2023, for the 62-day target, was 71.3 per cent of patients waited less than 62 days from urgent suspicion of cancer referral to first cancer treatment.This is compared with the September 2022 position of 78.3