ACCIDENT and emergency waiting time target performance has faltered at Inverclyde Royal.

The percentage of patients seen within four hours of arrival at the hospital between July 31 and August 6 was 73.2 per cent, a fall from the previous week's rate of 88.8 per cent.

It still bettered the Scottish average, which was 66.5 per cent, and was also higher than the rate across the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde health board area.