The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for detecting and processing a radio link and an apparatus. The method includes: configuring, by a access network device, independent radio link detection parameters for one or more wireless physical layer parameters used by a terminal device; and detecting, by the terminal device, radio links of the one or more wireless physical layer parameters, reporting a detected radio link failure of a wireless physical layer parameter to the access network device, and processing, under scheduling and configuration performed by the access network device, data on the wireless physical layer parameter whose radio link fails.