THE Western Infirmary and Gartnavel Hospital are the poorest performing in Scotland under current waiting times figures.

Waiting-time targets in hospital accident and emergency (A&E) departments are not being met, with the Western Infirmary managing to see fewer than three-quarters of patients within four hours.

New figures from the Scottish Government showed there had been a decline in performance across the country, with 91.7% of people in A&E being seen, treated and either discharged or admitted in four hours or less.

The figure has dropped slightly from the previous week when 92.2% of A&E cases were dealt with inside the target time.

It is also below the targets set by minsters, who have an interim goal of having 95% of people treated in four hours, ahead of meeting the full target of 98%.

The latest figures showed that in the week ending Sunday March 22 A&E units dealt with 26,047 patients.

Of those, 190 had to wait more than eight hours to be seen while nine spent 12 hours of more in A&E.

Health Secretary Shona Robison stressed performance had improved since the Government began publishing weekly A&E waiting-times statistics in February, when 86.1% of patients were seen in the four-hour target time.

Scotland's hospitals also did better than those in England, where in the week ending March 22 89.6% of patients were treated within four hours at core sites.

But at the Western Infirmary/Gartnavel Hospital in Glasgow that week only 71.7% of A&E cases were dealt with in four hours - the lowest proportion in Scotland.

Across the Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS board area, 87.3% of patients were seen within the target time, again the lowest rate in the country.

Ms Robison said the Scottish Government had recently committed £5 million of funding to the health board to help "relieve pressure".

The Health Secretary said: "Our core A&E departments across Scotland are continuing to see nine out of ten people within four hours.

"This is, of course, down to our hard-working NHS staff who are doing a fantastic job to treat people as quickly as possible.

"Attendances this week were up on last but, reassuringly, long waits are continuing to remain low, with less than one per cent of patients waiting for more than eight hours - although we are clear that reducing these figures is a main priority."

Meanwhile, Glasgow's NHS board is one of seven to fail to meet waiting-times targets for cancer patients.

Half of health boards failed to meet a key cancer waiting-times target, though across Scotland the number of patients being seen has risen.

In the last three months of 2014, 94.2% of those patients who were urgently referred when doctors suspected cancer began their treatment within 62 days, official figures showed.

That is below the Scottish Government target of having 95% of patients start treatment within two months, but it is better than the previous quarter, when the total was 93.5%.

Seven of the country's NHS boards met the 62-day standard but seven did not, with NHS Grampian, NHS Highland, NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland, NHS Fife, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde all failing to achieve the target.