6 HOUR WAITING TIME IN A+E

[muddydisco]

Went A+E 10:30 last night after having something in my eye for 2 days. Got seen at 4:20 am sorry can't get it out you will have to come back tomorrow to the eye clinic at 4:30 pm. So they got it out today and it's sore as anything. But the amount of time waster coming in throught the door is a joke.

[Bush Tucker Man]

Sorry for your wait (on behalf of the NHS, even though I know it's a different Trust)

Sadly with what could be complex medical problems (ie; eyes) they refer to a greater specialist knowledge; the Opthalmologists.

I saw this from the other side last year, as I had a Ulcerated Cornea & was under their Consultant (admittedly our waiting times are short & I was referred by one of our Registrars)

But the amount of time waster coming in throught the door is a joke.

Yeah, tell me about it :roll:  :roll:  :roll:

[TDi90]

discraceful.  

[thermidorthelobster]

I'm going to make your day by telling you my A&E experience last week.

Child knocked her head after a small fall and was a bit concussed.  Took her to hospital and pulled up in the ambulance bay.  Went into A&E (this was on a Friday night) and 2 nurses and a doctor saw to her instantly - she was the only patient in the whole department at the time.  She had 3 people attending to her until she was taken for a CT scan half an hour later.  The radiologist checked her results straight away and talked them through with me.  They then put her in the children's ward for the night in a private room with a shower, fed me and my colleague (with the Disco still parked in the ambulance bay, they suggested we left it there), and found us a spare room elsewhere in the hospital.  She was monitored closely all night, fed, watered and discharged the following day.

Sounds great, doesn't it?  That's what you get in an oil-rich country with a small population and financially-savvy government.  This was Norway;  the only hospital in a 3-hour radius and on Saturday morning I walked from one end to the other without bumping into a soul.  There were empty beds everywhere and the staff were almost bored!

:twisted:

[sleeplessparadise]

Well maybe if so many idiots didn't get drink and then get in a fight or even worse drive somewhere there wouldn't be such long waiting times and people in need of help through incidents would be able to be seen quicker

[thermidorthelobster]

Oh, by the way, the reason the ambulance bay isn't used very much is that most patients come in by helicopter  :lol:

[muddydisco]

I think they should scrape NI and go private health. That would get rid of the time wasters.

[Boggert]

I'm going to make your day by telling you my A&E experience last week.

Child knocked her head after a small fall and was a bit concussed.  Took her to hospital and pulled up in the ambulance bay.  Went into A&E (this was on a Friday night) and 2 nurses and a doctor saw to her instantly - she was the only patient in the whole department at the time.  She had 3 people attending to her until she was taken for a CT scan half an hour later.  The radiologist checked her results straight away and talked them through with me.  They then put her in the children's ward for the night in a private room with a shower, fed me and my colleague (with the Disco still parked in the ambulance bay, they suggested we left it there), and found us a spare room elsewhere in the hospital.  She was monitored closely all night, fed, watered and discharged the following day.




Sounds great, doesn't it?  That's what you get in an oil-rich country with a small population and financially-savvy government.  This was Norway;  the only hospital in a 3-hour radius and on Saturday morning I walked from one end to the other without bumping into a soul.  There were empty beds everywhere and the staff were almost bored!

:twisted:

Its not just the oil rich...

A few years ago while on Holiday visiting the wife's family in Czech Republic at Christmas, I got a real nasty eye infection, it was very painful and oozing all over the shop.

Christmas Day the take me to A&E or the equivalent.. I go straight to see an eye surgeon, who checks the eye, cleans it and gives me pain killers and antibiotics.
This was all done in 15 mins. now I was in a panic because I hadn't got insurance total cost for 2 prescriptions and the visit £8.75! :lol:
I had a filling replace out there for £3,  :lol:
And before you ask yes it all up to scratch, clean, quick and professional!

[simdeb]

i can't moan at our doctors or the hospital, some people will not go to kingsmill but on the whole i think we've only experienced one ignorant doctor who misdiagnosed my mums broken hand!!

[diggerdog36]

Ive got a great way of jumping the queue and getting seen straight away, smash your self up real bad in a parachute accident, ring an ambulance, make the driver throw up with the sight of your legs, go into shock.......well, it worked for me!!!

[littlepow]

I just don't like doctors, not managed to get anything right yet.

That and I don't like the smell of hospitals!