A doctor, who told Sky News that GP surgeries are also seeing a huge increase in the number of emergency consultations, said the situation was 'not safe or sustainable'.
Opposition politicians say her government has lost its grip and fallen asleep at the wheel.
Amid the current situation, the first minister is accused of pointing the finger of blame at patients for turning up at hospitals unnecessarily. A record number of beds are being taken up by people who no longer need to be in the wards because social care places are not ready for the next step in their recovery.Almost every single performance indicator within Scotland's emergency departments has been flashing red for a long while.
One Glasgow surgery I visited is dealing with 80 emergency appointments a day compared to 16 a few years ago.One GP said the number of emergency consultations had gone up from around 16 to 18 per day to around 80.
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