Ruth Cadbury, MP for Brentford and Isleworth, has criticised the Conservative government for the problems with waiting times in the NHS. 

Cadbury took to Twitter, replying to a tweet from Chris Gough about NHS statistics across the Conservative governments since 2010 and the negative trends that exist even prior to the pandemic, to place blame with the government for these problems. 

The tweet sought to point out that problems within the NHS have existed prior to 2020 and displayed negative trends in waiting times, ambulance response times, and waiting times in cancer treatment. 

Cadbury tweeted: "Recently the Government have sought to shift the blame about the crisis facing our NHS. 

"Yet before the pandemic more than 4 million people were still waiting for treatment. 

"The figures below show the impact that a decade of Conservative rule has had on our NHS." 

Gough's tweeted quoted four graphs, one plotting patients spending more than four hours in major A&E, the percentage of people who had to wait less than 62 days following a referral from a GP, the waiting list for hospital treatment, and average ambulance response time. 

The trends in these four categories have been trending negatively across the selected time periods and the cancer and ambulance ones were both well below their respective targets. 

Patients spending more than four hours in major A&E percentage had risen from under 10% in 2011 to over 40% in 2022. 

The percentage of patients waiting less than 62 days from GP referral to treatment has dropped from just above the 85% target line in 2010 to just above 60% in 2022 and has consistently trended downwards across the time period. 

The waiting list for hospital treatment fell from 2008 to 2010 from close to four million to just above two million, before continuously rising, aside for a dip in 2020, up to above 7 million in 2022. 

Then the fourth graph showed that the average ambulance response time has only been below the target of 18 minutes during a brief window in 2020, but since then has risen up to the one-minute mark and is now well above where it was in 2018.