A&E DEPARTMENTS in England have seen a slight recovery since last week’s winter crisis, but are missing waiting targets.

The latest figures revealed yesterday show 89.8 per cent of patients in England were seen within four hours of arriving in the week ending January 11, which remains short of the service’s 95 per cent target.

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: “Last week A&E got so bad that 95 per cent of England’s hospitals failed to hit the government’s own waiting time target.