NHS bosses say waiting time targets will have to be abandoned next year

Ministers are warned that key targets including A&E treatment and cancer care must be scrapped because of underfunding

NHS bosses have warned ministers they will have to tear up treatment waiting time guarantees and deny patients new drugs next year because they have given it too little money to do its job.

The government’s refusal to give the NHS the extra funds it said it needed in last week’s budget mean that key waiting time targets – on A&E treatment, cancer care, non-urgent hospital operations and ambulance arrival times – can no longer be met from April, NHS England made clear.

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