Record half a MILLION patients endured ‘torture’ 12-hour A&E waits in 2025

HALF a million people waited 12 hours in A&E last year in a record-breaking 12 months. NHS statistics show another 51,000 people languished for half a day or more before a bed became free in December. It takes the total for 2025 to 554,018 - the worst in history. That is only the second time...