Waiting time figures for the Accident and Emergency departments of Scotland's hospitals are to be published weekly, the Scottish government has announced.
The move follows criticism that Scotland's quarterly reporting of A&E waiting times did not allow action to be taken to quickly address problems.
The Scottish government had previously announced it would move to monthly reporting.
It has now said it would publish weekly statistics from 3 March.
The Scottish government's chief statistician said the weekly publication would include the total number of attendances at each core emergency site and a breakdown of waiting times.
'More accountable'It will include the total number of attendances and the number waiting longer than four, eight and 12 hours.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "The regular collection of year-round A&E statistics first began under this government, and I welcome the move to the weekly publication of A&E figures which will make NHS Scotland even more accountable to the public and patients who use their services.
"The new weekly Scottish A&E statistics will also contain more detail than the statistics that are published by NHS England."
Ms Robison said the government would also set up a new website to make statistics on NHS performance more accessible.
The waiting times move came the week after a support team was sent to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley where 84% of A&E patients were treated within a four-hour timeframe. The national target is 95%.
The latest set of A&E statistics, which were for the period from October to December, suggested 91% of patients were treated within four hours.
This compared to 94% in the previous quarter and was slightly worse than England's performance of 92.6%.
The numbers were below the overall performance in England but above that in what were described as "core sites" in major cities south of the border.
Opposition parties said the delay in getting the statistics and the fact they did not identify individual hospitals made it difficult to identify where the problems were.
A&E stats to be reported weekly
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