MORE than a third of A&E patients in Scotland wait to be seen for over four hours, latest figures show.

NHS services are still coming under significant and sustained pressure, Scotland’s Health Secretary Michael Matheson warned today.

Official data shows that of the 25,294 people who attended A&E in the week ending April 2, less than two thirds (63 per cent) were dealt with within four hours, down slightly from 63.3 per cent the previous week.

The slight fall in the proportion of patients treated in the target time comes with a decrease in the overall number of people attending for emergency care.

The Scottish government has set the target of having 95 per cent of patients in A&E seen and subsequently admitted, transferred or dicharged within four hours.

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