A&E departments experienced their worst performance on record, according to new data. Just 68.9% of patients in emergency departments in England were seen within four hours last month, figures from NHS England show, down from 69.3% in October and the worst on record.
The target is for at least 95% of patients attending A&E to be admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours. But this has not been met nationally since 2015.
Meanwhile 7.2 million people were waiting to start routine treatment at the end of October. That's up from 7.1 million in September and the highest number since records began in August 2007.
