Accident & Emergency Problems

I just don’t get why the politicians want to arrange yet another “summit” to resolve the apparent problems with A&E services when the solution is so blindingly obvious.

There are simply far too many people attending A&E in the first place who should not be there, so send them away. Instead of seeing a “triage nurse” there should be a senior doctor, a consultant, greeting the patients and filtering out all the patients who should be seeing their GP and advising them that they will not be seen in an accident and emergency department.

Or does that actually involve using the word “No” in these “I know my rights” days? Same goes for the stupid 999 calls which abuse the service, send the originator a bill.