Has this woman for even one second thought about the billionaires and the shareholders?
F*** the Tories for underfunding the health system for 12 years
Is told 17+ hours when she arrives, waits 15 then goes home? Why wait the 15 hours?
Apart from the 15hr aspect, that sounds like triage doing what triage is designed to do.
Now, of course there’s going to be more to it, but based on the headline, I’m getting the impression that people with strokes, heart attacks, chest pains, broken legs and whatnot were taking up all the doctors’ time so they couldn’t get around to her, and because she was physically well enough to walk out, she did.
The real questions revolve around why the NHS isn’t funded to a degree that there were enough doctors present to make the time to see even the less critical patients. Why it isn’t funded to a degree that permits bed spaces for more patients to be seen faster. But those questions are boring, because the answers are always the same. Blair and the Tories, with their backdoor privatisation of the NHS, putting running costs up through the roof with all the profiteering. If you wonder why the NHS is getting so much more expensive while getting so much less effective, there’s your answer.
Edit:
And now I’ve read the article, and it looks like she was sent to the wrong place. She’d already been triaged by the 111 service and referred for a scan. That should be an outpatients appointment, not a ‘rock up in the emergency part’ thing. Thing is, the dots probably aren’t joined up enough to make that happen.
When I was little, my NHS GP would have a doctor available 24/7. Practice times were normal, but if you were out of hours, there’d be a doctor available to do home visits. Obviously if it was an emergency you’d still need an ambulance to hospital, but you wouldn’t be there longer than you needed to be. It’s perhaps the only good thing I can say about Thatcher, but yeah… She had the sense to leave the NHS the hell alone
Edit II:
Before anyone shouts ‘immigration’ at me… Yes, more patients cost more. So do more doctors. However, doctors can see many patients for the same salary. Not *too* many, because the salary becomes less justifiable. But let’s say if you double the amount of doctors you could quadruple the amount of patients. What they decided to do was halve the amount of doctors *and* quadruple the patients, making doctors overworked and underpaid and the NHS go to shit. And now they blame the patients
Obviously poor but she should be glad she was not in any immediate danger. There were obviously a lot of patients worse off than her and their wait would have been just as anxious, but their physical health would have been at a greater risk than this woman’s.
It is also important to remember that NHS staff do not want this to be a thing. The NHS is expected to do more with less, even without a pandemic and the backlog in treatments it has caused, what we are seeing now is a healthcare system kept functioning by the will of staff alone. I work in a hospital lab and we were insanely busy today, with pods from the ED arriving constantly, it was a huge struggle to keep up. We are doing all this while we lose more staff and cannot recruit more to replace them. These wait times are the result of twelve years of the Tories, nothing else.
To be fair, the very fact she *just walked out* after 15 hours suggests she probably shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
They should fuck the national lottery off and just have one NHS lottery. Every scrap of profit to NHS.
> And there was only one doctor on duty.
Nice.
They should put up one of those queue screens like you get at Burger King, so you can see yourself slowly moving towards the front of the queue, maybe it might make the receptionist’s life a lot easier not having to answer the same question every 10 minutes, all day long.
I think a lot of the people commenting have missed something in the article:
**A woman walked out of a north Wales A&E**
So the funding will be coming from the devolved Labour Government in Wales. Sadly these sort of wait times are sadly nothing new – in fact the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board was [in special measures between 2015 – 2020](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61540326).
Glan Clywd as mentioned in the article, Wrexham Maelor, and Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor.
I had to go to A&E recently with severe chest pains whilst pregnant. Which is the kind of thing that usually gets triaged quite high priority. Ultimately they tested my heart and lungs for pulmonary embolism.. ‘scary stuff’. I waited 12 hours in A&E.. which, on the uncomfortable, hard plastic chairs of A&E whilst heavily pregnant and cumbersome, is basically actual torture.
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People saying ‘if she could walk she shouldn’t have been there’ are missing the point.
Firstly, A&E isn’t just for people who can’t walk, not sure why you are saying that.
Secondly, a 15 hour wait at A&E, no matter what is up with you, is a major cause for concern. This will mean people with serious conditions are waiting too long and is another worrying sign of the drastic deadline in the NHS under the Tories.
One of the biggest problems with A&E is how hard it is to see a gp.
I’ve been back in the uk after a long time abroad and the few times I’ve needed to see a gp I’ve been given a appointment in like 1 months time. Like wtf. I’ll be fine or dead by then. In other European countries you can get to see a gp within a day.
When I’ve talked to my family about this they’ve been like, yeah, just go to A&E. But its neither a accident or a emergency. I just need to see a doctor sooner that in one months time….
Same happened to my mum, ended up walking out and dismissed her symptoms. Debilitating pain meant she had no choice but to go back and wait after a few days. Turns out she has cancer and a massive tumour and it’s pretty far gone.
The constant delays are terrible but you never know what might be wrong, I’m glad she waited all that time and found out, albeit too far down the line
So she has now considered that she can live with the pain or go through the GP. Or MIU.. perhaps she should not have been waiting at A&E in the first place?
And I thought 8 hours was bad
This story doesn’t add up.
Says she arrived with HEART issues and isn’t prioritised
She says the whole waiting room were told at least a 17 hour wait and a lot of people walk out, so it’s not a 17hour wait at this point.
Decides to stay 15 hours and walks out ?
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More like someone trying to cause trouble here.
If she was fine enough to walk out and just go home then she didn’t really need the A & E then did she?
In A&E they Triage the people who enter. If she waited for 15 hours, there were 15 hours of people who were assessed as needing more urgent treatment than her.
Waited 8+ hrs the other week with a friend in a serious MC crash.
Seriously the system is fucked. He had to leave as he needed to lie down and rest.
Went back later and had 3 back fractures…the system is beyond broken.
As a motorcyclist myself I’m fecking terrified.
But please don’t blame the NHS. It’s not the fault, it’s the Tories trying to fuck the NHS up, the Tories want you to blame the NHS. The Tories are trying to make it so bad, that they will say, the only option is to privatise it, just so the rich can get there greedy robbing hand on it. So please don’t blame the hard working people at the A&E who are rushed off there feet, because of being under staffed & underpaid, they are trying there best to help you, but because of the Tories, it has become extremely difficult for them too keep up with the amount of people that needs there help. So don’t forget, it’s the Tories that has caused the problem, not the NHS or it’s staff.
Also fuck people attending ED with a stubbed fucking toe.
I went into A&E with a myriad of symptoms 2 weeks ago, specialist said would be best to do a CT scan to be safe, I agreed but was told “there might be a bit of a wait”.
I went into A&E on a Sunday (8am). I had my CT scan and left on WEDNESDAY. 3 days of giving me a room, food, blood tests, etc, not to sound ungrateful because I’m not but it was a tragic waste of resources…
Worst part is the consultant lied on my discharge papers to have me removed, meanwhile the problem I went to A&E for just gets worse… this country is completely and utterly fucked. Count yourself *very* lucky if you don’t need to lean on the NHS anytime soon.
Another story about wait times, another comment section about personal experiences with wait times, another bunch of people who are going to blame the worker in front of them and not the cunts in charge.
We’re killing ourselves out there, if you’re so upset why aren’t you tearing down parliament in a massive mob over the fact you had to wait for treatment for a… whatever (maybe even serious)??
Yes everyone is the main character of their own life, but it’s not as if all the frontline staff are out the back in the garden having a Covid party with booze (unlike our PM), we are working… CONSTANTLY!! And we have painfully rigid systems in place meaning if it’s taking a while to get to you 1) you aren’t the sickest person here, and 2) something is fucking broken and (at least for now) it isn’t us!!!!
Yes it can make us burnt out and not the most pleasant people to talk to, we may not be as warm and welcoming with great bedside manner that was expected, and just do the bare minimum of safe care to keep us from getting in trouble from management, and yes that is an issue that needs to be sorted (we shouldn’t be rude to people but I’ve definitely seen it happen/done it myself – and am ashamed of that), but come on, can anyone not see what we’re dealing with?
My brother went to A&E with headaches, they saw him quickly, got scanned with a brain tumour and was operated on within 12 hours. Had ongoing treatment for the past year – with chemo they’ll give us a date then phone on the morning and say no beds available try tomorrow, usually at least a week of phoning everyday seeing if there’s a bed available.
He’s developed problems with walking, speech etc and can’t look after himself, kept falling trying to go to the bathroom, get around the house- they said they couldn’t keep him in, no home care available.
He’s had to move in with my mum who works full time, minimum wage, council house. Her work are like most other employers these days, letting her take time off to look after him but no pay.
He had a decently paid job in groundwork but was “self employed” so not penny from his work and UC barely covers his residual expenses.
I cant knock the NHS (we’d be bankrupt if this happened in the states) but also it annoys me that it feels like charity in a way, yes we’re great full but we also pay a lot in N.I contributions, it’s all choice, Tories are running the system I to the ground, it could be so much better than this and the staff bless them work so hard for so little.
My partner and some friends work in the NHS so I hear how bad it is and horror stories in the press about people getting lumps, going onto long lists and it being too late to save them I just hope things change, it doesn’t need to be like this so many counties do it so much better its all choice
I kind of feel like hospitals get the blame for this problem. Kind of like thinking the blockage in your shower is the fault of the debris catcher. Take the top off and you realise actually the catcher is working fine. There is a blockage at the outlet.
EDs work perfectly if you can get people moved to the wards quickly. The wards work perfectly if you can discharge people quickly when social care is arranged.
Want to fix hospitals? Fund social care of the elderly in the community.
We are pretty much dependent on private companies to provide simple care in the community in NI. The carers can’t afford to run a car on their wages. So no carers. So no community care. So no discharges. So no inpatient beds. So no space in the ED.
I was there the same weekend with my elderly mother (Saturday a.m to late pm.)Yes hectic but again clearly explained that it was a triage system and priority was given to those most in need. We waited 10 hours with staff clearly working their socks off. Free food and drink was provided to those waiting 4+ hours. Clear explanations and updates given regularly. Yes far from ideal to wait that long but the deal is you get seen based on clinical priority and my mum’s case wasn’t a priority compared to some of the patients who arrived after her. My view is the system worked as it should do.
A&E is Accident and Emergency.
Not Anything and Everything.
People end up in A&E for a variety of reasons.
There needs to be significant investment in community healthcare.
That’s funny. I went to Morriston A&E in Swansea the other week, got told it was a 40+ hour wait.
Forty. Fucking. Hours.
No thanks. Got a taxi to Neath/Port Talbot A&E, 20 mins away. 2 hours, done. Absolute scenes.
Were the doctors on strike again?
Basic health care is completely broken in this country
We were told 5 hours (5pm – 5am) when we went in a few nights ago, we sat there for 12hrs before my fiancé was moved to the gynaecology ward. During this time she had to breastfeed our one month old baby in a corridor full of sick and drunk people.
I had to basically force her to stay and I’m glad I did, as it turns out she had a fairly serious post-birth complication.
I recently had a seizure. My wife phoned for an ambulance to be told that one would be along in 6 hours. She had to manhandle me into the car to take me to the hospital. A few days later I went to see my GP who literately shouted at me for not calling an ambulance. Couldn’t explain that I had, because he was in shouting mode and wouldn’t listen to me.
Bitterly disappointed with the NHS at this point – lost my hearing as a result of this incident and when I had an audiology appointment with the hospital, the audiologist (senior audiologist btw) clearly didn’t know how to use the machine. Went to Boots instead and the service was perfect. The lady there was well informed and told me everything I needed to know.
Sounds about the same length of time that’s spent in the waiting room just to see my GP!
I often see people moaning that “too many people go to A&E for a cold!” which, if correct, is awful.
But then I see people here moaning that a woman with heart attack symptoms went to A&E, assuming because she could walk that she shouldn’t have been there. Feels a bit like people getting angry at disabled parking bay users who don’t “look” disabled.
Are lots of people frivolously using A&E, or do some of them just not match your superficial judgement of how a very sick person should look?
My mate fell sown his mums backsteps and hurt his back so bad that he could barely move. He dragged himself inside and phoned the ambulance. It took them over a day to get to him with potential life changing injuries. Then he was left without seeing anyone for a another two days. Pretty fucked
From experience, a big problem is that a lot of people rock up to A&E because they can’t be bothered making an appointment with their GP, they want answers NOW, so they go to A&E and just clog up the system, even though they haven’t had an accident and it’s not an emergency.
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Has this woman for even one second thought about the billionaires and the shareholders?
F*** the Tories for underfunding the health system for 12 years
Is told 17+ hours when she arrives, waits 15 then goes home? Why wait the 15 hours?
Apart from the 15hr aspect, that sounds like triage doing what triage is designed to do.
Now, of course there’s going to be more to it, but based on the headline, I’m getting the impression that people with strokes, heart attacks, chest pains, broken legs and whatnot were taking up all the doctors’ time so they couldn’t get around to her, and because she was physically well enough to walk out, she did.
The real questions revolve around why the NHS isn’t funded to a degree that there were enough doctors present to make the time to see even the less critical patients. Why it isn’t funded to a degree that permits bed spaces for more patients to be seen faster. But those questions are boring, because the answers are always the same. Blair and the Tories, with their backdoor privatisation of the NHS, putting running costs up through the roof with all the profiteering. If you wonder why the NHS is getting so much more expensive while getting so much less effective, there’s your answer.
Edit:
And now I’ve read the article, and it looks like she was sent to the wrong place. She’d already been triaged by the 111 service and referred for a scan. That should be an outpatients appointment, not a ‘rock up in the emergency part’ thing. Thing is, the dots probably aren’t joined up enough to make that happen.
When I was little, my NHS GP would have a doctor available 24/7. Practice times were normal, but if you were out of hours, there’d be a doctor available to do home visits. Obviously if it was an emergency you’d still need an ambulance to hospital, but you wouldn’t be there longer than you needed to be. It’s perhaps the only good thing I can say about Thatcher, but yeah… She had the sense to leave the NHS the hell alone
Edit II:
Before anyone shouts ‘immigration’ at me… Yes, more patients cost more. So do more doctors. However, doctors can see many patients for the same salary. Not *too* many, because the salary becomes less justifiable. But let’s say if you double the amount of doctors you could quadruple the amount of patients. What they decided to do was halve the amount of doctors *and* quadruple the patients, making doctors overworked and underpaid and the NHS go to shit. And now they blame the patients
Obviously poor but she should be glad she was not in any immediate danger. There were obviously a lot of patients worse off than her and their wait would have been just as anxious, but their physical health would have been at a greater risk than this woman’s.
It is also important to remember that NHS staff do not want this to be a thing. The NHS is expected to do more with less, even without a pandemic and the backlog in treatments it has caused, what we are seeing now is a healthcare system kept functioning by the will of staff alone. I work in a hospital lab and we were insanely busy today, with pods from the ED arriving constantly, it was a huge struggle to keep up. We are doing all this while we lose more staff and cannot recruit more to replace them. These wait times are the result of twelve years of the Tories, nothing else.
To be fair, the very fact she *just walked out* after 15 hours suggests she probably shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
They should fuck the national lottery off and just have one NHS lottery. Every scrap of profit to NHS.
> And there was only one doctor on duty.
Nice.
They should put up one of those queue screens like you get at Burger King, so you can see yourself slowly moving towards the front of the queue, maybe it might make the receptionist’s life a lot easier not having to answer the same question every 10 minutes, all day long.
I think a lot of the people commenting have missed something in the article:
**A woman walked out of a north Wales A&E**
So the funding will be coming from the devolved Labour Government in Wales. Sadly these sort of wait times are sadly nothing new – in fact the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board was [in special measures between 2015 – 2020](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61540326).
Personally, I think this is down to North Wales only having 3 major hospitals with A&E units, as per [this map](https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1FjOYWuDJKaPe4ouqtRGopbgrjGw&msa=0&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.57750005009809%2C-3.5925289999999954&spn=3.126747%2C7.042236&output=embed&z=7).
Glan Clywd as mentioned in the article, Wrexham Maelor, and Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor.
I had to go to A&E recently with severe chest pains whilst pregnant. Which is the kind of thing that usually gets triaged quite high priority. Ultimately they tested my heart and lungs for pulmonary embolism.. ‘scary stuff’. I waited 12 hours in A&E.. which, on the uncomfortable, hard plastic chairs of A&E whilst heavily pregnant and cumbersome, is basically actual torture.
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People saying ‘if she could walk she shouldn’t have been there’ are missing the point.
Firstly, A&E isn’t just for people who can’t walk, not sure why you are saying that.
Secondly, a 15 hour wait at A&E, no matter what is up with you, is a major cause for concern. This will mean people with serious conditions are waiting too long and is another worrying sign of the drastic deadline in the NHS under the Tories.
One of the biggest problems with A&E is how hard it is to see a gp.
I’ve been back in the uk after a long time abroad and the few times I’ve needed to see a gp I’ve been given a appointment in like 1 months time. Like wtf. I’ll be fine or dead by then. In other European countries you can get to see a gp within a day.
When I’ve talked to my family about this they’ve been like, yeah, just go to A&E. But its neither a accident or a emergency. I just need to see a doctor sooner that in one months time….
Same happened to my mum, ended up walking out and dismissed her symptoms. Debilitating pain meant she had no choice but to go back and wait after a few days. Turns out she has cancer and a massive tumour and it’s pretty far gone.
The constant delays are terrible but you never know what might be wrong, I’m glad she waited all that time and found out, albeit too far down the line
So she has now considered that she can live with the pain or go through the GP. Or MIU.. perhaps she should not have been waiting at A&E in the first place?
And I thought 8 hours was bad
This story doesn’t add up.
Says she arrived with HEART issues and isn’t prioritised
She says the whole waiting room were told at least a 17 hour wait and a lot of people walk out, so it’s not a 17hour wait at this point.
Decides to stay 15 hours and walks out ?
​
More like someone trying to cause trouble here.
If she was fine enough to walk out and just go home then she didn’t really need the A & E then did she?
In A&E they Triage the people who enter. If she waited for 15 hours, there were 15 hours of people who were assessed as needing more urgent treatment than her.
Waited 8+ hrs the other week with a friend in a serious MC crash.
Seriously the system is fucked. He had to leave as he needed to lie down and rest.
Went back later and had 3 back fractures…the system is beyond broken.
As a motorcyclist myself I’m fecking terrified.
But please don’t blame the NHS. It’s not the fault, it’s the Tories trying to fuck the NHS up, the Tories want you to blame the NHS. The Tories are trying to make it so bad, that they will say, the only option is to privatise it, just so the rich can get there greedy robbing hand on it. So please don’t blame the hard working people at the A&E who are rushed off there feet, because of being under staffed & underpaid, they are trying there best to help you, but because of the Tories, it has become extremely difficult for them too keep up with the amount of people that needs there help. So don’t forget, it’s the Tories that has caused the problem, not the NHS or it’s staff.
Also fuck people attending ED with a stubbed fucking toe.
I went into A&E with a myriad of symptoms 2 weeks ago, specialist said would be best to do a CT scan to be safe, I agreed but was told “there might be a bit of a wait”.
I went into A&E on a Sunday (8am). I had my CT scan and left on WEDNESDAY. 3 days of giving me a room, food, blood tests, etc, not to sound ungrateful because I’m not but it was a tragic waste of resources…
Worst part is the consultant lied on my discharge papers to have me removed, meanwhile the problem I went to A&E for just gets worse… this country is completely and utterly fucked. Count yourself *very* lucky if you don’t need to lean on the NHS anytime soon.
Another story about wait times, another comment section about personal experiences with wait times, another bunch of people who are going to blame the worker in front of them and not the cunts in charge.
We’re killing ourselves out there, if you’re so upset why aren’t you tearing down parliament in a massive mob over the fact you had to wait for treatment for a… whatever (maybe even serious)??
Yes everyone is the main character of their own life, but it’s not as if all the frontline staff are out the back in the garden having a Covid party with booze (unlike our PM), we are working… CONSTANTLY!! And we have painfully rigid systems in place meaning if it’s taking a while to get to you 1) you aren’t the sickest person here, and 2) something is fucking broken and (at least for now) it isn’t us!!!!
Yes it can make us burnt out and not the most pleasant people to talk to, we may not be as warm and welcoming with great bedside manner that was expected, and just do the bare minimum of safe care to keep us from getting in trouble from management, and yes that is an issue that needs to be sorted (we shouldn’t be rude to people but I’ve definitely seen it happen/done it myself – and am ashamed of that), but come on, can anyone not see what we’re dealing with?
My brother went to A&E with headaches, they saw him quickly, got scanned with a brain tumour and was operated on within 12 hours. Had ongoing treatment for the past year – with chemo they’ll give us a date then phone on the morning and say no beds available try tomorrow, usually at least a week of phoning everyday seeing if there’s a bed available.
He’s developed problems with walking, speech etc and can’t look after himself, kept falling trying to go to the bathroom, get around the house- they said they couldn’t keep him in, no home care available.
He’s had to move in with my mum who works full time, minimum wage, council house. Her work are like most other employers these days, letting her take time off to look after him but no pay.
He had a decently paid job in groundwork but was “self employed” so not penny from his work and UC barely covers his residual expenses.
I cant knock the NHS (we’d be bankrupt if this happened in the states) but also it annoys me that it feels like charity in a way, yes we’re great full but we also pay a lot in N.I contributions, it’s all choice, Tories are running the system I to the ground, it could be so much better than this and the staff bless them work so hard for so little.
My partner and some friends work in the NHS so I hear how bad it is and horror stories in the press about people getting lumps, going onto long lists and it being too late to save them I just hope things change, it doesn’t need to be like this so many counties do it so much better its all choice
I kind of feel like hospitals get the blame for this problem. Kind of like thinking the blockage in your shower is the fault of the debris catcher. Take the top off and you realise actually the catcher is working fine. There is a blockage at the outlet.
EDs work perfectly if you can get people moved to the wards quickly. The wards work perfectly if you can discharge people quickly when social care is arranged.
Want to fix hospitals? Fund social care of the elderly in the community.
We are pretty much dependent on private companies to provide simple care in the community in NI. The carers can’t afford to run a car on their wages. So no carers. So no community care. So no discharges. So no inpatient beds. So no space in the ED.
I was there the same weekend with my elderly mother (Saturday a.m to late pm.)Yes hectic but again clearly explained that it was a triage system and priority was given to those most in need. We waited 10 hours with staff clearly working their socks off. Free food and drink was provided to those waiting 4+ hours. Clear explanations and updates given regularly. Yes far from ideal to wait that long but the deal is you get seen based on clinical priority and my mum’s case wasn’t a priority compared to some of the patients who arrived after her. My view is the system worked as it should do.
A&E is Accident and Emergency.
Not Anything and Everything.
People end up in A&E for a variety of reasons.
There needs to be significant investment in community healthcare.
That’s funny. I went to Morriston A&E in Swansea the other week, got told it was a 40+ hour wait.
Forty. Fucking. Hours.
No thanks. Got a taxi to Neath/Port Talbot A&E, 20 mins away. 2 hours, done. Absolute scenes.
Were the doctors on strike again?
Basic health care is completely broken in this country
We were told 5 hours (5pm – 5am) when we went in a few nights ago, we sat there for 12hrs before my fiancé was moved to the gynaecology ward. During this time she had to breastfeed our one month old baby in a corridor full of sick and drunk people.
I had to basically force her to stay and I’m glad I did, as it turns out she had a fairly serious post-birth complication.
I recently had a seizure. My wife phoned for an ambulance to be told that one would be along in 6 hours. She had to manhandle me into the car to take me to the hospital. A few days later I went to see my GP who literately shouted at me for not calling an ambulance. Couldn’t explain that I had, because he was in shouting mode and wouldn’t listen to me.
Bitterly disappointed with the NHS at this point – lost my hearing as a result of this incident and when I had an audiology appointment with the hospital, the audiologist (senior audiologist btw) clearly didn’t know how to use the machine. Went to Boots instead and the service was perfect. The lady there was well informed and told me everything I needed to know.
Sounds about the same length of time that’s spent in the waiting room just to see my GP!
I often see people moaning that “too many people go to A&E for a cold!” which, if correct, is awful.
But then I see people here moaning that a woman with heart attack symptoms went to A&E, assuming because she could walk that she shouldn’t have been there. Feels a bit like people getting angry at disabled parking bay users who don’t “look” disabled.
Are lots of people frivolously using A&E, or do some of them just not match your superficial judgement of how a very sick person should look?
My mate fell sown his mums backsteps and hurt his back so bad that he could barely move. He dragged himself inside and phoned the ambulance. It took them over a day to get to him with potential life changing injuries. Then he was left without seeing anyone for a another two days. Pretty fucked
From experience, a big problem is that a lot of people rock up to A&E because they can’t be bothered making an appointment with their GP, they want answers NOW, so they go to A&E and just clog up the system, even though they haven’t had an accident and it’s not an emergency.