At Ayr there were 47 people whose discharge had been delayed. The longest wait outside the hospital by then was just a fraction under three hours, with the average wait 83 minutes,Īt the health board’s other accident and emergency department in Ayr Hospital there were waits of at least two hours 10 minutes yesterday afternoon with an average 97 minutes. It will probably get worse that’s the reality I’m afraid.”Īt 12 noon on Sunday the patient had been waiting 15 hours 41 minutes but by 4pm the patient was no longer showing on the ambulance turnaround time list. “It is the system that’s broken but I cannot see it getting better any time soon. “If it was a life or death emergency they wouldn’t have to wait as long as 15 hours but it is still too long for any patient and with the elderly you have to think about their skin as well because they could end up with pressure sores from being on an ambulance trolley for that length of time. The ambulance insider said: “I do not know why the patient was in the ambulance but no-one would want their family member in the back of an ambulance for more than 15 hours. It is bad for the patient and it also takes ambulances out of service for other people.”īaillie called on Health Secretary Humza Yousaf to “get a grip of this or do the honourable thing and resign”. “It is unacceptable for someone to be waiting 15 hours in an ambulance. She added: “This has potentially catastrophic consequences because the longer people wait the less likely they are to have a positive outcome. Meanwhile, there were 87 patients in Crosshouse Hospital whose discharge was delayed even though they were well enough to leave Labour’s health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said the figures were “evidence that the winter crisis is deepening and long waits are becoming the norm”. Lanarkshire mum knocked unconscious during attack in Wishaw woods.Man pleads not guilty to alleged murder of sex worker Emma Caldwell.“The answer isn’t even putting more ambulances on the road because they would just be sitting in queues outside hospitals anyway And while ambulances queued outside the hospital there were 50 patients throughout the ambulance control area waiting to be picked up. Last night an ambulance insider called the wait “appalling”. The patient lay on a trolley in the back of the ambulance outside Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, amid lengthy waits at the accident and emergency department while queues of sick patients waited for crews to attend at their homes. A patient spent more than 15 hours in the back of an ambulance outside a Scots hospital as temperatures dipped below freezing point.
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