ACCIDENT and emergency waiting times have slipped at Inverclyde Royal in the latest week figures are available for. 

The percentage of patients who were seen within four hours of arrival at the hospital between May 1 and May 7 was 81.3 per cent, down from the previous week's figure of 86.2 per cent. 

This was better than the Scottish average of 65.8 and the rate across the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde health board area, which was 61.2 per cent.