More patients waiting too long in A&E despite it being NHS priority Latest figures show fewer patients treated within four-hour target time even though trusts were ordered to improve their performance
The NHS is taking longer to treat patients attending accident and emergency departments despite ministers and health officials making A&E waiting times a top priority. The latest official NHS performance figures show that in May, hospital-based A&E units in England treated just 84.6% of patients within their four-hour target time, despite a requirement to treat 95% within that time.
That was down on both the previous month (85.7%) and May last year (85.4%). Medical leaders warned that the figures showed that the NHS could be in for an even tougher winter later this year than it experienced in 2016-17. Continue reading... The Guardian
The NHS is taking longer to treat patients attending accident and emergency departments despite ministers and health officials making A&E waiting times a top priority. The latest official NHS performance figures show that in May, hospital-based A&E units in England treated just 84.6% of patients within their four-hour target time, despite a requirement to treat 95% within that time.
That was down on both the previous month (85.7%) and May last year (85.4%). Medical leaders warned that the figures showed that the NHS could be in for an even tougher winter later this year than it experienced in 2016-17. Continue reading... The Guardian
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