A patient at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley has been waiting for over 1,199 days for an urology procedure, marking the longest inpatient procedure wait at the hospital. The Scottish Government faces criticism for not providing an adequate plan to address long wait times for planned care.
A patient at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley has been waiting more than three years to receive treatment.
However, waits are also extremely long for those able to have their treatment and return home the same day, with the longest outpatient treatment wait at the RAH currently sitting at 550 days - that's for a patient needing a respiratory medicine procedure. "No one should have to wait in pain, no one should have to wait in uncertainty but with the lack of proper workforce planning and a strategy to tackle waiting lists this crisis will continue under the SNP."It’s time for Neil Gray and John Swinney to listen to the doctors and nurses on the frontline and come back to the Holyrood chamber with a plan that will actually reduce these staggering wait times and allow our NHS to cope with the incoming winter pressures.
Health Secretary Neil Gray said: “While unusually long waiting times are often the result of personal or medical reasons, we are working intensively with NHS Boards to reduce the length of time people are waiting for appointments and treatment.
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