bluetonium
Well-Known Member
Unfortunately I think this is the case. Spent 4 hours in A&E myself last week with my daughter after a fall at school, and the GP could only offer a telephone call some time within the next 6 hours despite her complaining of back pain and sleepiness.Are A+Es especially busy with people using hospitals because of (seemingly) doctors not wanting to see people?
So off we went to A&E. I didn't want to be there, she didn't want to be there, but even though you're 90% sure all is ok you can't take the chance. If the GP won't help then it falls on A&E. I'd say 8 of 10 others on the crammed waiting room were in the same boat.
But there's a shower of hell heading for my local GP anyway. The receptionists seemingly are told to triage calls now, telling my disabled mum to just go to the pharmacy for pain relief rather than give her an appointment recently. Three days of her putting up with the pain later, and a family intervention, she was in A&E also and being told if she'd left it another night she's be at death's door, for something highly preventable.