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 performanceThe 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 tr