NUMBERS of patients waiting more than 12 hours in Scottish A&Es are 99 times higher than 14 years ago and it is putting lives at risk, medics have warned.

New analysis of by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) show that just 784 people faced a 12-hour wait in Scottish A&Es in 2011 compared with a staggering 76,346 in 2024.

The figures mean that over three times as many people languished for more than 12 hours in A&E last year alone than in the entire preceding decade.