NHS to miss targets for cutting A&E wait times and performance in England
by Denis Campbell, Michael Goodier and Carmen Aguilar from World news | The Guardian on (#74JV2)
Exclusive: Health secretary's pledges in doubt as analysis shows health service will not deliver key improvements
The NHS is set to miss key targets to shorten waiting times for help at A&E, cancer care and planned hospital treatment, leaving millions of patients facing persistently long delays.
The health service in England will not deliver a series of milestone improvements in its performance that ministers demanded it achieve by the time the fiscal year ends on Tuesday, a Guardian analysis of the NHS's most recent data has found.
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