Get to grips with NHS wait times as terminally ill grandad kept for 15 hours

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A record £21billion will be spent on health and social care services across Scotland this year. ‌

That’s a huge amount of taxpayers’ money in anyone’s book. But what are patients getting in return? ‌

The number of Scots waiting longer than eight hours for care in an NHS emergency department has risen again. ‌

And four per cent of patients who attended emergency departments waited more than 12 hours – up 3.7 per cent from the week before.

Today we tell the story of Peter Black, a terminally ill cancer patient who waited 15 hours at his local A&E department .

It was only when a family member begged the health board boss to step in that Peter was finally treated. Article continues below

Peter’s harrowing story illustrates a problem which is being repeated in ca