article_snippet: The A&E four-hour waiting target will be missed for the whole of 2014/15, the Department of Health today said.
article_snippet: the Department of Health today said the four-hour A&E waiting time will be missed for the whole of 2014/15 after the latest weekly figures showed the target was not achieved for the 23rd consecutive week .
article_snippet: We've known that hospitals have been struggling to meet the four-hour A&E target for a while. '
article_snippet: The report adds: 'Failure to meet, for example, the four-hour A&E target appears to have very little bearing on performance against other measures. '
highlights_snippet: Repeated failure to meet four-hour target means it cannot be achieved for the year 2014/15, the Department of Health said today .
  