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Post by wiseclerk on Oct 1, 2021 15:19:52 GMT
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Post by keitha on Oct 1, 2021 16:47:00 GMT
Just been speaking to an elderly friend who has a nasty cut on his arm. Went to the Local Hospital ( via Taxi ) where they did a quick check then told him he was in the queue to be seen. at 8:00 pm they said that they would be closing in an hour so please arrange to get home,and to comeback in the morning ( another 2 taxi trips). as a pensioner 4 £10 taxi trips in a week beyond him. Phoned GP and he can have an appointment in 2 weeks. I'm taking him back to the hospital later this morning looks like a complaint in order. After a 3 hour wait was seen by a nurse who called a doctor over, it would appear the wound is now infected and should have been stitched, unfortunately it's too late to stitch and he will probably end up with a nasty scar. I'm taking him back on Sunday to get the dressing changed. Hospital is rightly annoyed that GP wouldn't see him and now he will be travelling over to get a dressing change rather than practice nurse at GP doing it. I've suggested he rings GP surgery and asks to speak to practice nurse to see if they can do it.
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Post by investor1925 on Oct 2, 2021 7:56:39 GMT
Sorry to hear that . All I can say is it must vary tremendously by area. A week ago I was able to get a same day face to face appointment with a GP at my local practice. That followed my calling 111 (who were great), and a tele-consultation (which went as I expected it to - "ok, we better take a look"). (Don't ask, you really, really don't want to know). I believe 111 have a fast track into GP appointments. We phoned 111 a couple of years ago & they actually called us an ambulance, so it does work.
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Post by keitha on Oct 2, 2021 16:50:58 GMT
I believe 111 have a fast track into GP appointments. We phoned 111 a couple of years ago & they actually called us an ambulance, so it does work. one of the issues with 111 is many of the "frequent flyers" know the words touse to get 111 to send an ambulance. I can remember reading earlier this year of one crew responding to a Blue light message from 111, They assessed the patient and nothing was wrong and as they were leaving the person was on the phone complaiing of the same symptoms and they didn't get to the end of the road before being sent back to the same person.
Some of these people have Mental Health issues abd they need to be addressed rather than wasting Ambulance service time. Those who don't have mental health issues and persistenly waste NHS time should be billed and or prosecuted and given the equivalent of an ASBO that says "if you call 999 and its not a real emergency, you will be punished"
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Post by keitha on Oct 2, 2021 17:09:34 GMT
NO NO NO to the petrol retailers association saying London and South East must have priority.
That's the one area of the UK with really good public transport Concentrate on the rural Areas South West,Wales,Scotland, East Anglia and the North of England where the population is more spread out and personal transport is more essential than in London and the south East
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Post by agent69 on Oct 2, 2021 17:23:27 GMT
Twenty-car convoy tails tanker for miles in desperate hunt for petrol... only to discover it's carrying CEMENT
Great story if true
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Oct 2, 2021 17:41:10 GMT
our next door neighbour is a paramedic explained to me the process which determines the priority of target attendance time for an ambulance. Its very tick box driven on critical words used in the report , so when my wife had stomach pains, terrible, she was priority 3 and waited 2 1/2 hrs for an ambulance with an obstructed bowel that nearly killed her. However if the terms chest pain or overdose were included by her in her symptoms report she would have been a blue light priority 1 . His most stupid example a priority 1 call from a mother of a vomiting child who reported an overdose of smarties , but the word overdose was in in the report so blue lights it was.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Oct 2, 2021 19:56:22 GMT
Just been speaking to an elderly friend who has a nasty cut on his arm. Went to the Local Hospital ( via Taxi ) where they did a quick check then told him he was in the queue to be seen. at 8:00 pm they said that they would be closing in an hour so please arrange to get home,and to comeback in the morning ( another 2 taxi trips). as a pensioner 4 £10 taxi trips in a week beyond him. Phoned GP and he can have an appointment in 2 weeks. I'm taking him back to the hospital later this morning You can pull a wound like that together using a number of narrow strips of ordinary sticking plaster, pulling it together a bit like stiches, not the best but a good fix if you can't get to a doctor.
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