New statistics have revealed that only 82.3% of patients across the Highlands were seen within four hours at A&E departments in July. This figure is shockingly lower than the SNP's target of 95%.
Furthermore in the Highland Capital, Raigmore Hospital, the biggest hospital in the Highlands disgracefully only a mere 66.9% of patients in A&E were seen within the four hour target.
Councillor Ruraidh Stewart, Scottish Conservative candidate for Inverness and Nairn in the upcoming Holyrood elections, has called for SNP Ministers to finally outline a plan to address Scotland's crumbling NHS and fix the “permanent crisis” in Highland's hospitals.
Councillor Ruraidh Stewart said: “The latest A&E waiting time figures for Highland hospitals are down right terrifying.
“NHS Highland exists in a state of permanent crisis now thanks to the SNP's ineptitude in managing the country's NHS and their flimsy Covid ‘recovery plan’.
“If less than three quarters of patients in the Highlands are seen within four hours in Summer, locals will rightly be worried to see what Winter will bring.
“Hardworking NHS staff across NHS Highlands are doing an incredible job, but the current state of the NHS across Scotland is making their job impossible.
“The SNP Government must put their money where their mouth is and give frontline care the funding and attention it so urgently needs, instead of burning it in more backroom bureaucracy.”