PRINCESS Alexandra hospital in Harlow has, again, missed their target for the number of people set to be seen within four hours at A and E.

The national target is 95% but the Harlow hospital could only achieve a 71.6% success rate.

However, that is an improvement from 69.2% last week.

The waiting time percentage declined from 79% to 77% to 69% over the past few weeks.

In the third week of January, 1,650 people attended A and E. Down by 14.

Last week, 469 people had to wait more than four hours to be seen. Up by 111.