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January 2015 was a big month for the NHS. Pressure on A&E departments across the country reached critical levels. In the week leading up to Sunday 4 January,NHS England statistics showed that emergency departments across England treated just 79.8% of patients within the four-hour target. This performance was officially the worst ever.
Record numbers of patients were forced to spend between four and 12 hours on trolleys waiting to be admitted; operations were cancelled; and, in some cases, and ambulances were having to queue for at least 30 minutes,unable to hand over their patients to A&E staff because the emergency department was too busy. Up to 15 hospitals declared major or meaningful incidents, signifying that they could not cope with the volume of patients.
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Source: theguardian.com