Well going by the news on the BBC the royal is just basically a drug dealing hub. So who knows what’s going on in A&E anymore and they trying say they don’t have a problem when most people are reporting seeing it happening.
Most people who go to A&E don’t need to be there.
Social care & care in the community has gone to shit so lots of old people in there when they should be getting care elsewhere. Can’t get a GP appointment so most people don’t even bother ringing, so the minor problem the GP would have fixed snowballs into the bigger problem that results in an emergency.
Lots of arse covering, “I’d get checked out in A&E just in case”, tying up valuable resources with nonsense. Lots of scrotes who didn’t plan ahead and ran out of meds on a Saturday night, so go to A&E to get an “emergency” prescription. Lots of people with Mickey Mouse injuries who just need to wait till the morning to ring the minor injuries unit & be in and out with the required stitches in 20 minutes.
Doctors afraid to say, “there’s actually fuck all wrong with you, you narcissistic twat” for fear of being sued. Doctors who are very smart, but also extremely conformist, being asked to think outside the box to solve resourcing problems they aren’t trained or equipped to solve.
If you’re unwell would you rather:
1. Make a GP appointment and spend 10 mins consulting a doctor
2. Lose 8 hours+ of your life sat on a miserable plastic chair in a room full of sick people
I don’t doubt people are going to A&E with problems better suited to the GP. But it’s not a choice they want to make.
I sat with my brother (sent as an emergency by dr) in a&e antrim.
This woman mid to late 30’s comes in with paramedics and her daughter about 5 or 6 year old in a hospital wheelchar.
They walked in and The paramedic started telling the receptionist the situation, rolled his eyes and openly said she “wasn’t in immediate need of attention”
The daughter had been sick 3 times since 4pm and it was 11.45pm, so the mum basically phoned an ambulance for her daughter vomiting.
And to clarify this wasn’t an on going problem and the paramedics were clearly pissed off at her as they made a few remarks about it openly.
I had to be in a&e on Christmas morning unfortunately and there were 3 people in the waiting room. I landed back in the other evening unfortunately and it was swamped. I do think a lot of people attend because they can’t see a GP or because they don’t realise what can be done in minor injuries. Plus getting seen by out of hours can take forever and unfortunately for me I am sent to a&e 99% of the time by out of hours anyway so I usually just increase the wait time for treatment if I risk out of hours (ongoing health issues so not just me assuming. Basing this on experience).
More people need to know which care avenue is best, they also need to be able to access it promptly and easily. It’s expensive if you have to get a taxi there and don’t live near or if you rely on public transport.
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Well going by the news on the BBC the royal is just basically a drug dealing hub. So who knows what’s going on in A&E anymore and they trying say they don’t have a problem when most people are reporting seeing it happening.
Most people who go to A&E don’t need to be there.
Social care & care in the community has gone to shit so lots of old people in there when they should be getting care elsewhere. Can’t get a GP appointment so most people don’t even bother ringing, so the minor problem the GP would have fixed snowballs into the bigger problem that results in an emergency.
Lots of arse covering, “I’d get checked out in A&E just in case”, tying up valuable resources with nonsense. Lots of scrotes who didn’t plan ahead and ran out of meds on a Saturday night, so go to A&E to get an “emergency” prescription. Lots of people with Mickey Mouse injuries who just need to wait till the morning to ring the minor injuries unit & be in and out with the required stitches in 20 minutes.
Doctors afraid to say, “there’s actually fuck all wrong with you, you narcissistic twat” for fear of being sued. Doctors who are very smart, but also extremely conformist, being asked to think outside the box to solve resourcing problems they aren’t trained or equipped to solve.
If you’re unwell would you rather:
1. Make a GP appointment and spend 10 mins consulting a doctor
2. Lose 8 hours+ of your life sat on a miserable plastic chair in a room full of sick people
I don’t doubt people are going to A&E with problems better suited to the GP. But it’s not a choice they want to make.
I sat with my brother (sent as an emergency by dr) in a&e antrim.
This woman mid to late 30’s comes in with paramedics and her daughter about 5 or 6 year old in a hospital wheelchar.
They walked in and The paramedic started telling the receptionist the situation, rolled his eyes and openly said she “wasn’t in immediate need of attention”
The daughter had been sick 3 times since 4pm and it was 11.45pm, so the mum basically phoned an ambulance for her daughter vomiting.
And to clarify this wasn’t an on going problem and the paramedics were clearly pissed off at her as they made a few remarks about it openly.
I had to be in a&e on Christmas morning unfortunately and there were 3 people in the waiting room. I landed back in the other evening unfortunately and it was swamped. I do think a lot of people attend because they can’t see a GP or because they don’t realise what can be done in minor injuries. Plus getting seen by out of hours can take forever and unfortunately for me I am sent to a&e 99% of the time by out of hours anyway so I usually just increase the wait time for treatment if I risk out of hours (ongoing health issues so not just me assuming. Basing this on experience).
More people need to know which care avenue is best, they also need to be able to access it promptly and easily. It’s expensive if you have to get a taxi there and don’t live near or if you rely on public transport.
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