Dumbarton's MSP Jackie Baillie has called on the Scottish Government to take action as NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde continue to miss performance targets for waiting times.

The board's performance report from their board meeting in October, showed that as of August there were 5,360 patients, eligible under the 12-week Treatment Time Guarantee, waiting longer than 12 weeks for inpatient/day case procedures.

This was down from 5,394 people waiting longer than 12 weeks at the end of July, however, the board exceeded their "trajectory" for August for the number of TTG patients waiting longer than 12 weeks by 1341.

The paper also shows that the board has exceeded their trajectory figure every month between April, when the new reporting year began, and August.

Ms Baillie said: “NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde continue to break the Scottish Government’s Treatment Time Guarantee and patients are feeling the impact.

“The board missed a total of 8 key performance targets and behind every missed target is an individual person who has been left to suffer as a result of having to wait too long.

“Staff are working flat out but they are under-resourced and over-worked. It is clear that the health board is failing to manage our local health service adequately in the face of reducing budgets. I hope that the Scottish Government will take action to ensure that patients from our area receive a quality health service.”

A spokeswoman for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: "Most of our patients are seen and treated within their guaranteed time of 12 weeks.

"Unfortunately there a number of pressures which are proving challenging and patients awaiting some speciality appointments are waiting longer than we would like and we apologise for this.

"We have identified a number of actions to help alleviate the pressures for some specialities to increase the available capacity and meet the rising demand.

"We also welcome the Scottish Government’s recent announcement of a plan to direct a further £850m to sustainably improve waiting times across Scotland."