albion534
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Awwww bless ya, If I had know I could have brought up a thermal flask, a teddy best and a dummy? Sort it out! 3 hours for a poorly finger is a world record
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Tricky Dicky
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I once went to A&E at the Royal Sussex at 7 on a Monday evening. There was one other person in the waiting room. After 4 hours a nurse gave me an initial look, 2 hours later I saw a doctor. I was sent down to the x-ray department that was closed, and asked to come back 2 days later. The doctor made the injury worse which resulted in me not being able to write for 2 months.
Hillian1
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It's known as triage, I bet you were seen as soon as you walked into A&E. The triage nurse would then asses what injury you had and place you on a priority list.
7 hours I was in HH A&E once, it was a Friday night and I'd cut my knuckle off with a broken glass, a washing up accident, by the time the walking wounded from all the fights and pissed up people had been seen it was my turn.
7 hours I was in HH A&E once, it was a Friday night and I'd cut my knuckle off with a broken glass, a washing up accident, by the time the walking wounded from all the fights and pissed up people had been seen it was my turn.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Generally at any given time, at least half the people sitting in the waiting room at A&E don't actually require hospital treatment & could easily be seen by their GP or a nurse practitioner at their local surgery, or at one of the NHS walk-in centres.
If people didn't call ambulances or present themselves at A&A for the most ridiculous stuff then things might speed up a little.
That said, I don't particularly think 3 hours is much of an issue. I've spent much longer than that waiting around hospitals before.
Perhaps the O/P should have gone to the 1901 entrance at the RSCH & he might have received the service he evidently felt was more appropriate to the status of his hurt finger.
If people didn't call ambulances or present themselves at A&A for the most ridiculous stuff then things might speed up a little.
That said, I don't particularly think 3 hours is much of an issue. I've spent much longer than that waiting around hospitals before.
Perhaps the O/P should have gone to the 1901 entrance at the RSCH & he might have received the service he evidently felt was more appropriate to the status of his hurt finger.
Barry Izbak
U.T.A.
Top Tip - When you check in tell them you are a nurse.
I guarantee you won't wait so long.
I guarantee you won't wait so long.
Yes this does seem to be a large part of the problem, there was a story on the news about it the other week and some of the things people consider an emergency are hilarious. I think a lot of people don't realise the procedures that can be handled at their local GP surgery.
But 3 hours, I'd be quite happy with that!
Although it is nice to have a unifying thread on NSC.
supaseagull
Well-known member
How did you dislocate your finger?
If your life s not in danger A&E will always stick you to the back of the queue. That's how it works.
do you have very stretchy skin Tyrone?
Paris
Well-known member
Broken Britain 
I agree.
I was up there a couple of weeks ago with my elderly Father, he was in some pain and remains in hospital at present.
I looked around the waiting room and I could only see one person that obviously needed hospital attention, the others maybe had bumps and scrapes or nothing of any significance, why oh why they chose to sit up A&E for hours clogging up the system god only knows, made me extremely angry TBH.
I have friends that seem to take their children up to the doctors or A&E at the slightest ailment, shame on them really.
Tyrone Biggums
Well-known member
No, just stretchy ligaments and no knuckle casings left.
I was advised the only way to stop the issue is to get the bones fused. This was after I enquired about amputation for one.
Camicus
New member
Whilst you were sitting there whining some poor fucker was dying. A+E dont keep you there waiting for giggles its because someone who is in a worse situation than you is being seen to accident +EMERGENCY the clues in the name
Tyrone Biggums
Well-known member
Some dislocations can be pretty f***ed up so an emergency ward is a good place to go. Finger blocks if required are horrendously painful, but in time delightfully wonderful and a GP can't do them.
I've visited a GP for a dislocation and he couldn't do what was required to put it back in.
I've visited a GP for a dislocation and he couldn't do what was required to put it back in.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
This. There should be more of them. But folk always demand that their "local" A&E should be kept open as a fully functioning "centre of excellence". That way, it will ALWAYS be the case that a chap with a dislocated finger will be kept waiting while major trauma cases are seen first.
banjo
GOSBTS
Trying to get the porsche out of the garage.
