Accident and emergency departments (A&E) in Scotland's hospitals failed to meet a key waiting-times target in February.
A total of 92.9% of all patients were seen and either admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours last month, missing the Scottish Government's interim target of 95%.
The monthly statistics for February revealed there were 127,713 attendances at A&E services across Scotland.
Just over 1,085 patients spent more than eight hours in an A&E department while 269 patients spent more than 12 hours waiting.
Weekly figures also published on Tuesday show that emergency departments missed the target during the week ending March 27, with 92% of patients seen within four hours.
During that week, 163 patients spent more than eight hours in an emergency department while 22 were there for more than 12 hours.
Fourteen of the 30 hospitals where performance is monitored weekly failed to meet the four-hour target, with Glasgow Royal Infirmary only seeing 78.7% of patients in the timeframe.
The hospital achieved 88.5% in the monthly figures for February while Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board was close to the national figure, with 92.6%.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "Scotland has the best-performing A&Es in the UK.
"Today's figures show Scotland's A&Es having their best February in the last four years and are more than that 20 percentage points higher than A&E in Labour-run Wales.
"We've made progress in the last year, and with an SNP government Scotland's frontline health budget will rise in real terms in each year of the next parliament to ensure this progress can be built upon."
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