article_snippet.sent: a hospital's under-pressure A&E department came as the weekly national figures from NHS England showed it has missed the four-hour waiting time target for the 28th consecutive week, despite a slight improvement.
article_snippet.sent: The proportion of patients seen within the Government maximum of four hours at A&E departments in NHS England is below the target of 95 per cent again - A&E departments in England have not been met since September 28.
article_snippet.sent: NHS England said 92.5 per cent of patients spent four hours or less from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge in the week ending April 12.
article_snippet.sent: This was a slight improvement on the previous week, when This was 92.4 per cent.
article_snippet.sent: the weekly national figures from NHS England include data from last Friday, April 10, where the MIO was sent in to help at Worcestershire Royal Hospital after months of problems.
article_snippet.sent: According to today's NHS waiting times figures, there were 443,274 attendances in A&E for the seven-day period, up slightly on the previous week when it was 441,099.
article_snippet.sent: The number of people waiting for more than four hours was 7,434 - slightly lower than 7,459 a week earlier.
article_snippet.sent: Similarly, The number of people waiting for more than 12 hours was 15 - down from 22 the previous week.
article_snippet.sent: Emergency admissions were 102,163, compared with 106,160 the previous week.