A&E Weekly Figures Published

97% of all A&E patients in Fife have been seen within four hours, that's according to the latest figure

1, 200 people attended the Victoria Hospital in the week up to August 2nd. 28 patients had to wait more than eight hours for treatment.

Across Scotland, 95% of A&E admissions were seen within the four hour target.

Health Secretary Shona Robison has welcomed today’s figures and thanked hardworking NHS employees for their efforts: “It is extremely promising that our core A&E departments are maintaining the standard of seeing and treating 95 per cent of patients within four hours.

“This is testament to the hard working staff who continue to ensure that patients receive the quality of care they deserve. This has also led to significant reductions in waits over eight and 12 hours since the start of weekly reporting in February.

"We now need to maintain this improvement and continue to achieve 95 per cent nationally throughout the summer to ensure that all health boards are in an optimum position as we head in to this winter.

“While this improvement in performance is welcomed, we know that there is always more work to do on A&E performance and, more importantly, the wider service issues that impact upon A&E performance, like delayed discharge and patient flow through the hospital.

“In order to achieve this we have put record funding and staffing in place, and have shown our commitment to tackling delayed discharge through our £100 million investment, as well as through the on-going integration of health and social care and the new six essential actions approach to improving unscheduled care. We have also issued winter guidance to health boards almost two months earlier than last year, to ensure they build in optimum levels of resilience capacity in preparation for winter.

“Through these measures we have created strong foundations for health boards and the new Integrated Joint Boards to ensure their services, our NHS, continues to deliver for the people of Scotland.”