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Credit and restrictions:Please credit: LBC’s Nick Ferrari at BreakfastUp to 3 minutes of footage/audio is cleared for editorial use.The LBC logos in the studio must not be obscured or removed.The Government and NHS has missed its target on four-hour waits in emergency departments, new figures show.Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the target was “within touching distance” and insisted that the NHS is “finally moving in the right direction”.Data published on Thursday shows that 77.1% of patients in England were seen within four hours in A&E departments last month, up from 74.1% in February.The Government and NHS England had set an interim target of March 2026 for 78% of patients attending A&E to be admitted, discharged or transferred within four hours.

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00:04We needed to get an average of a 30-minute response time for those ambulances arriving
00:11for heart attack and stroke victims. We needed an average of 30 minutes. We came in at 30 minutes
00:20and four seconds. We were breathtakingly close there. On the 12-hour standard, so this is where
00:27we need to reduce the number of patients waiting over 12 hours for admission or discharge from
00:32an A&E department to 10% or less of the time. We missed that by 0.01 percentage points.
00:44So we came in at 10.01, which I have to say, like, and then on the four-hour waits
00:53in A&E,
00:54we needed to do that. So 78% of people admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours in
01:01A&E by the end of March. That needed to come in at 78%. We missed that by 0.9
01:08percentage points.
01:10So all within touching distance. But you know me, Nick, I'm very competitive. And so I'm frustrated
01:19because I wanted to kind of come in ahead. But the fact is, I mean, regardless of all of that,
01:25and I definitely want to give credit to the staff here, we have nonetheless got the best ambulance
01:33response times we've seen in half a decade, waiting lists at the lowest levels in three years,
01:37and the best A&E performance in four. So at least the NHS is finally moving in the right direction.
01:42So
01:43You
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