Although the aim of treating 95% of cases within four hours was only narrowly missed, it is the first time since April it has not been achieved
Hospitals are struggling to meet accident and emergency targets as winter
strikes.
Across England, 3,678 patients were forced to wait up to 12 hours for treatment last week.
Although the aim of treating 95% of cases within four hours was only narrowly missed, it is the first time since April it has not been achieved.
Waiting times were worst in major A&E wards where just 92.2% of patients were seen within four hours.
The average was 94.8%. Five patients were not seen for more than 12 hours, NHS figures show.
Last week, hospitals treated more than 415,000 patients in A&E – up 3,500 in a week.
Dame Barbara Hakin, NHS England’s chief operating officer, said: “Last week was the busiest this year, with 415,400 attendances and 105,800 emergency admissions – the highest number of emergency admissions since we started to collect data in November 2010.”
Labour Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham said: “Patients wait hours to be seen in A&E.
"And yet David Cameron and his ministers deny A&E is in crisis.
"This dangerous complacency can’t go on.”
Mirror
Across England, 3,678 patients were forced to wait up to 12 hours for treatment last week.
Although the aim of treating 95% of cases within four hours was only narrowly missed, it is the first time since April it has not been achieved.
Waiting times were worst in major A&E wards where just 92.2% of patients were seen within four hours.
The average was 94.8%. Five patients were not seen for more than 12 hours, NHS figures show.
Last week, hospitals treated more than 415,000 patients in A&E – up 3,500 in a week.
Dame Barbara Hakin, NHS England’s chief operating officer, said: “Last week was the busiest this year, with 415,400 attendances and 105,800 emergency admissions – the highest number of emergency admissions since we started to collect data in November 2010.”
Labour Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham said: “Patients wait hours to be seen in A&E.
"And yet David Cameron and his ministers deny A&E is in crisis.
"This dangerous complacency can’t go on.”
Mirror
