HOSPITALS across the country are failing to meet their targets.

Just one hospital trust, Luton and Dunstable, managed to hit all its targets over the last year.

A BBC special investigation analysed targets for patients waiting for more than four hours in A&E, the number people waiting over 62 days for cancer treatment and delays in planned operations or treatments.

Basildon and Thurrock NHS Trust failed to meet any of its targets for the whole year .

The trust last met its targets for A&E waits and planned operations in 2015.

Cancer treatment targets at Basildon have not been met since 2014.

Southend hit its A&E target in April but cancer treatments haven’t been met since 2015 and planned operations since 2016.

Clare Culpin, managing director of Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are working tirelessly to ensure all patients receive their treatment in a timely way and believe these are important quality indicators.

“In respect of the A&E four hour transit time target we have delivered 90 per cent or above in four out the six months since the start of the new financial year, which is a steady improvement. We have seen an increase in the number of patients during that period.”