article_snippet.sent: Waiting times to be seen in A&E have soared to times worst level in more than 10 years, official figures revealed this morning.
article_snippet.sent: Labour's Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham said the Government was the blame for the NHS's failure.
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron has overseen a record hump in waiting times to be seen in A&E, official figures revealed this morning .
article_snippet.sent: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: 'After five years of David Cameron, A&E waits are at A&E waits worst level for a decade and patients are finding it harder and harder to see a GP. '
article_snippet.sent: There's only one person to blame for the A&E crisis and that's David Cameron.
article_snippet.sent: only one person to blame for the A&E crisis has made it harder to get a GP appointment, cut council social care budgets and wasted £3billion on a reorganisation that nobody wanted and nobody voted for.'
article_snippet.sent: Labour leader Ed Miliband said: 'We've just seen figures today published for waiting times in England's A&E departments which show that the first three months of this year was the worst period since the four-hour A&E target was introduced over a decade ago. '
article_snippet.sent: But a Conservative spokesperson said NHS A&Es were struggling because more and more patients were turning up at hospital to be treated.
article_snippet.sent: a Conservative spokesperson said: 'A&E units across the UK faced unprecedented demand this winter, but English A&Es see 3,000 more patients a day within four hours than in 2009, and perform better than Scotland, Northern Ireland and Labour-run Wales, so it is completely wrong for Labour to try to turn this into a political football. '
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband said this was a direct contributor to problems in England’s A&E departments, which has seen the NHS breach the target to see 95 per cent of within four hours of arrival for the 26th week in a row.
highlights_snippet.sent: A&E waiting times have soared to A&E waiting times worst level in more than 10 years .
  