NHS Misses Targets for Improving A&E Wait Times and Performance in England
Analysis reveals the NHS in England will fail to meet key goals set by the government for reducing wait times in A&E, cancer care, and planned hospital treatments by the end of the fiscal year.
NHS is set to miss critical targets to shorten wait times for help at A&E, cancer care, and planned hospital treatment, leaving millions of patients facing persistent delays. The health service in England will not deliver a series of milestone improvements in its performance that ministers demanded it achieve by the end of the fiscal year, according to a Guardian analysis of the NHS's most recent data.
The missed targets are a setback for the government's pledges to improve the NHS's performance and reduce wait times for patients. Health Secretary Wes Streeting had made reducing wait times a priority, but the data shows the health service will fall short of those goals.
{{IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER}}Source: The Guardian
