BMA Scotland deputy chair Dr Lailah Peel says patients safety is 'at risk every day' in hospitals.
Scotland's hospitals are "not safe" for patients under current winter pressures on the NHS, a doctors' union says.
"Patients who need to be in intensive care or high dependency units are sitting in A&E departments for hours waiting, it is just not safe. On Friday Nicola Sturgeon chaired a meeting of the Scottish government's resilience committee to address the pressures on health and social care services. "Doctors and nurses are working under the most unprecedented pressure of their careers and the NHS's existence," he said."Our focus is on trying to invest more in social care, to improve conditions for the workforce and to try to create every ounce of capacity we possible can."
When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland.
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