Repeated failure to meet four-hour target means it can not be achieved for the year 2014/15 , the Department of Health said today . Aim is for 95 % of patients to wait four hours or less from arrival at A & E to being sent home or to another ward in the hospital for care . Comment: Week ending March 8 saw 92 % of patients seen within the target time . Comes as report warns even top hospitals are struggling amid pressures . ' Warning signs are flashing ' across hospitals , Nuffield Trust said .
Repeated failure to meet four-hour target means it can not be achieved for the year 2014/15 , the Department of Health said today . Aim is for 95 % of patients to wait four hours or less from arrival at A & E to being sent home or to another ward in the hospital for care . Latest weekly figures shows standard missed for 23rd consecutive week . Week ending March 8 saw 92 % of patients seen within the target time . Comes as report warns even top hospitals are struggling amid pressures . 'Warning signs are flashing ' across hospitals , Nuffield Trust said .