Overview
- January saw 71,517 people wait more than 12 hours from decision to admit to admission, the highest monthly total since records began in 2010.
- A&E attendances reached a record 2,320,266 in January, and ambulance services handled record incidents across December and January.
- Only 72.5% of A&E patients were seen within four hours in the latest month, short of the 78% target set for March 2026.
- The elective waiting list fell to 7.29 million by the end of December 2025 as staff delivered 18.4 million treatments last year, a new annual high.
- Hospitals reported daily averages last week of 1,119 inpatients with flu and 929 with norovirus, intensifying winter capacity pressures.