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A&E DEPARTMENTS in England have seen a slight recovery since last week’s winter crisis, but are missing waiting targets.
The latest figures revealed yesterday show 89.8 per cent of patients in England were seen within four hours of arriving in the week ending January 11, which remains short of the service’s 95 per cent target.
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: “Last week A&E got so bad that 95 per cent of England’s hospitals failed to hit the government’s own waiting time target.
“The number of patients waiting too long has doubled since January last year. It is more proof you cannot trust the Tories with the NHS.”
Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt seized on separate Welsh figures in an attempt to divert attention from his failure.
Only 81 per cent of patients were seen within four hours there.
And Mr Hunt wrote on Twitter that the figures in “Labour-run Wales” makes “‘weaponising’ in England all the more hollow.”
