Accident and Emergency Departments (Waiting Times) | Portfolio Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimates that,

“at the current rate of progress, it could take more than 200 years to reduce the number”

of Scots waiting long hours at A and E to levels seen just a decade ago. Will the Government accept that its current approach has failed and commit to a whole-system approach that also tackles the social care crisis, where there is underfunding of £500 million for this financial year and record levels of delayed discharge?

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