The Tories have missed their pledge to eliminate NHS waits of more than 18 months.
Despite a growing 7.2 million treatment backlog in England ministers had pinned their hopes on eliminating the longest waiters by April.
However Health Secretary Steve Barclay admitted in the House of Commons this had not been achieved.
The Conservatives had hoped to use the achievement to allow Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to claim to be reducing the NHS waiting list going into the next General Election.
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting said it was another “broken promise”, adding: “So much for Rishi Sunak's relaunch.
“He has failed to deliver on every target in his elective recovery plan, and patients are waiting longer as a result.
“Only Labour has a plan to get patients treated on time, and that's why people across the country are coming home to Labour.”
The target is thought to have been missed by around 10,000 patients who were still waiting longer than 18 months at the end of the 2022/23 financial year.
The target was included in both the NHS Government elective recovery plan published in February 2022 and Rishi Sunak’s five headline pledges in his new year’s speech.
Mr Barclay said: “Last year, we launched the Elective Recovery Plan, which is making big strides to reduce the backlog brought about by Covid-19.
“We eliminated nearly all waits of over two years by last July and now 18-month waits have decreased by over 90% since their peak in September 2021.”
The Health Secretary had earlier laid out the Government's plans to try to get all patients to receive a GP appointment within two weeks.
He told MPs: "Clinically urgent issues will be assessed on the same day or the next day if raised in the afternoon, and if not urgent an appointment will be scheduled within two weeks.
"But crucially, people won't be asked to call back tomorrow. Instead they will get their appointment booked in the same day or be signposted to other services."
Mr Streeting responded: "He says patients will get an appointment within two weeks as if it is some kind of triumph.
“Two weeks? When we were in government, we delivered GP appointments within two days. And when will this pitiful promise be delivered? There is no date or deadline.
"When can patients expect the 8am scramble to be ended by? There is no date or deadline.
“When will patients with urgent needs be seen on the same day? There is no date or deadline."
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