INVESTIGATION: Women wait longer than men for emergency medical care in Scotland despite the fact they are more likely to be admitted to hospital after being seen in A&E, FerretScot reveal
WOMEN wait longer than men for emergency medical care in Scotland despite the fact they are more likely to be admitted to hospital after being seen in A&E.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said the figures were “disappointing” and it was “working to increase awareness of this issue”.Scottish Government and NHS health boards insist emergency departments prioritise patients by clinical need, not gender, despite the figures. At University Hospital Crosshouse, in Kilmarnock, women were left waiting 31 minutes longer than men in November 2022. Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert and University Hospital Ayr attended to women almost 30 minutes later than men in August 2022, October 2022 and March 2023, respectively.
A spokesperson for NHS Grampian, the board overseeing healthcare in Aberdeen, said that it was important to note that the time needed to treat patients was included in the waiting figures. Cultural beliefs see women as prone to anxiety and more emotional than men, while conditions that affect primarily women – such as ovarian cysts and endometriosis – are understudied. The medical school curriculum often uses limited representations of patients. “For heart attacks, the example in the book is almost exclusively of a man,” Graham said. All this informs an unconscious bias against women held by medical staff, she claimed.
Graham said the woman was later admitted to hospital with a partially collapsed lung and difficulty breathing – but only after visiting the A&E two more times with the same symptoms.Monica Lennon MSP, convenor of the cross-party group for women’s health, said: “This crucial research lifts the lid on medical misogyny in Scotland today, and the real-life impacts on the health of women. It’s staggering that the gender waiting gap for emergency care has quadrupled.
She continued: “Our system can work better for women. The Scottish Government has previously committed to creating a Scottish Institute for Women’s Health to drive changes in policy, medical training and to fund dedicated research into women’s health. This needs to be prioritised by ministers in the next year.”
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