Bed blocking and covid cases are contributing to poor performance at Paisley’s struggling Royal Alexandra Hospital. Those are the claims of NHS bosses as the facility’s under-pressure casualty department notched up its worst ever performance since 2015 last week - the second worst in Scotland for the second time in three months.
And poorly Renfrewshire residents are once again being urged to avoid the Corsebar Road hospital’s A&E department, unless their illness is “very urgent or life threatening”.
The hospital has recorded some of the worst emergency department performances since current records began several times in recent months but figures show the buckling site has plunged to new lows.
It comes after Health Secretary Humza Yousaf visited the site just two weeks ago to hold talks with staff and management in a bid to iron out problems at the failing site.