text: Waiting times to be seen in A&E have soared to their worst level in more than 10 years, official figures revealed this morning. In the first three months of the year, 434,775 people waited longer than four hours in hospital emergency wards - some 4,830 patients every day. Over the past year, more than 1.4 million people were forced to wait longer than the target time – compared to just 353,000 in 2009/10 – the worst on record since 2004. Over the past year, more than 1.4 million people were forced to wait longer than the target time – compared to just 353,000 in 2009/10 . The figures also show that 113,648 waited longer than four-hours on trolleys in A&E, and 983 over 12 hours. It is now 89 weeks since hospital A&Es met their waiting targets. NHS England figures show that 92 per cent of patients spent less than four hours in the week ending March 29. This was down on the previous week when 93.2 per cent were seen within the time limit. It comes after the Department of Health last week confirmed the NHS has failed to meet its target every week of the winter, meaning the average for the whole year has not been met. Labour's Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham said the Government was the blame for the NHS's failure. David Cameron has overseen a record hump in waiting times to be seen in A&E, official figures revealed this morning . Labour leader Ed Miliband, arriving at an election campaign event in Bristol this morning, has promised to bin the Government's NHS reforms . Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to give NHS chiefs 'whatever they need' after the election. Mr Hunt claimed a Conservative government would find whatever money the health service said it needed to cope with the growing pressure on hospitals and GP surgeries. The NHS's chief executive Simon Stevens has said the health service needs an extra £8billion a year by 2020 just to keep standards as they are. Mr Hunt today vowed to find the cash – but went further by claiming that the Government would find even more cash if they health service needed it. He told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: 'We will back the NHS's own plan in full, so we agree with the £30 billion gap, and we agree with the NHS when they say that if they can make £22 billion of efficiency savings the NHS would need £8 billion. 'But they also said in that plan very clearly that they might need less than £8 billion if they can make more efficiency savings, or they might need more than £8 billion if they can't make those efficiency savings.' He added: 'We will give whatever they need, it might be more than £8 billion, it might be less, but the point is you can only have this discussion if you have a strong and growing economy.' 'Over the course of this parliament, on the back of a strong and growing economy, we have actually increased funding for the NHS by £5 billion in real terms every year.' He said: 'After five years of David Cameron, A&E waits are at their worst level for a decade and patients are finding it harder and harder to see a GP. 'There's only one person to blame for the A&E crisis and that's David Cameron. He has made it harder to get a GP appointment, cut council social care budgets and wasted £3billion on a reorganisation that nobody wanted and nobody voted for.' Labour leader Ed Miliband, campaigning in Bristol this morning, said one of the reasons behind the problems in A&E was that the coalition policy has led to 600 fewer GP surgeries staying open at evenings and weekends. He said: 'We've just seen figures today published for waiting times in England's A&E departments which show that the first three months of this year was the worst period since the four-hour A&E target was introduced over a decade ago. 'One of the reasons for that is it's got a lot harder to see a GP. Across England there are some 600 fewer GP surgeries open in the evenings and at weekends than there were at the last general election. One in four people can't get a GP appointment within a week. 'The NHS cannot go forward if queues to see your GP are stretching backwards and I believe that Britain can do a lot better than people waiting day after day for basic healthcare. That's what our plan will do.' But a Conservative spokesperson said NHS A&Es were struggling because more and more patients were turning up at hospital to be treated. He said: 'A&E units across the UK faced unprecedented demand this winter, but English A&Es see 3,000 more patients a day within four hours than in 2009, and perform better than Scotland, Northern Ireland and Labour-run Wales, so it is completely wrong for Labour to try to turn this into a political football. 'Thanks to a strong and growing economy we are investing £2 billion in the frontline next year to transform care in the community and take the pressure off hospitals.' Labour has been accused of ‘hypocrisy’ and using out-of-date figures after claiming the Coalition has made it harder to get a GP appointment. Ed Miliband said there were now 600 fewer GP surgeries staying open at evenings and weekends than before the next election. He said this was a direct contributor to problems in England’s A&E departments, which has seen the NHS breach the target to see 95 per cent of within four hours of arrival for the 26th week in a row. The Labour Party has put the NHS at the centre of its campaign for re-election, releasing a poster today dubbed 'The doctor can't see you now', as Labour claim almost 600 fewer GP surgeries are offering extended opening hours to patients . But the Tories pointed out that the GP figures dated from 2013/14 – and did not include improvements in GP access since David Cameron pumped more money into the NHS last year. Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, pointed out that Tony Blair’s botched GP contract of 2004 has allowed GPs to opt out of responsibility for their patients out of hours. And Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said it was a ‘bit rich’ of Labour to complain of funding cuts when they wasted so much NHS money in power. A string of medical leaders came out to say Labour’s claims on GP surgeries were simply wrong. Labour’s health spokesman Andy Burnham wants to re-introduce a target to ensure everyone can see their GP within 48 hours of trying to get an appointment. But in an embarrassment for the party, the Labour-run Welsh government said it had no plans to introduce such a target in the principality. It came after the party launched a poster declaring the ‘Tories have made it harder to see a GP’. The poster reworks the Conservatives’ 1979 ‘Labour isn't working’ image by depicting a huge queue outside a waiting room with the title: ‘The doctor can't see you now.’ But Mr Hunt said the claim there are 590 fewer surgeries was ‘wrong’, saying that the figures quoted only go up to 2013/14. He said the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund – announced last year – covered 1,100 practices and helped 7.5 million patients see GPs in the evenings and at weekends.
target: In the first three months of the year, 434,775 waited longer than four hours .
  Over the past year, more than 1.4m forced to wait longer than target time .
  A&E waiting times have soared to their worst level in more than 10 years .
  It's now 89 weeks since A&Es met their waiting targets, figures show .