LESS than 60 per cent of patients who arrived at A and E at Barnsley Hospital last month were seen within four hours.
The NHS standard is for 95 per cent of patients to be seen within four hours.
However, as part of a recovery plan, the health service aims for 78 per cent of patients to be seen within this timeframe by this month.
Recent NHS England figures show there were 7,895 visits to A and E at the Gawber Road site in February.
Of them, 4,322 were seen within four hours - accounting for 55 per cent of arrivals.
This means the trust fell well below the recovery target and the original standard.
Meanwhile 577 patients waited longer than four hours, including five who were delayed by more than 12 hours.
The overall number of attendances to A and E at Barnsley Hospital in February was a drop of nine per cent on the 8,683 visits recorded during January, and six per cent lower than the 8,365 patients seen in February 2024.
