So, H&S was trying to avoid accident prevention – to Dally; and A&E was, for him, an 'unpleasant' place to be ...

The plot thickens.

Mrs D took junior back to school today. One of the nurses was horrified by the incompetence of the two hospitals. Hospital 1 stuck a dressing on with the wrong tape but worse hospital 2's Max-Fac specialist put a dry rather than wet dressing on the wound (against what hospital 1 had previously got right). In consquence, school took half an hour to carefully remove the dressing that had stuck to the wound, whilst junior was screaming in pain. As Mr Max-Fac wants junior to go back a week to day, he'll no doubt get a piece of Mrs D's mind!

1. The point I was making was it was Saturday and there were no sporting, etc injuries but the place was still packed.
2. Clearly not enough.
3. I don't know of health cover that covers A&E requirements.
4. No, 8 white people. Loads of other people.
5. Yes but it seems to me that triage does not usually prioritise the potentially serious cases over the self-inflicted and non-serious. That's what I find wrong not the access to treatment for all.

I think for people who turn up to A&E rather than going through GPs there needs to be sanctions. It would be wrong to charge them because that may put off people in genuine need who play by the rules. Maybe each person / family should have a scorecard and when they've done it 2 or 3 times they should be charged?

You should fooking know.
You're never out of the place with them offspring of yours.

I've only ever been to a doctors/hospital, for my own needs, once in the last 35 years.
It'll be just my luck to be stuck in a queue behinds the likes of your tribe, if and when I require assistance.

Working in A&E is perceived as the the less prestigious end of the medical profession, hence the fact that so few doctors aspire to it.

Far better to be a GP, work 9-5 from behind a desk and get paid £120,000 p/a.

Dally, if I have an injury or painful condition I don't give a toss what colour, religion or nationality the medical staff in A & E are as long as they are qualified and treat my problem.

Nor do I.

Middle class/risk-averse?

<<<''Stops watching US Open tennis and awaits with eager anticipation for enlightenment?''>>>

I've edited that post to better explain what I intended to say.

Alot of our visits are due to parademics getting called. They always insist on taking junior to hospital even when we don't want to. The problem with going to hospital when there is no actual injury is that we may as well be taking double-Dutch as none of the doctors have a clue what we are talking about as junior's condition is beyond their knowledge and expertise.

The post about the prestige of A&E rings true.

I've spent the last eight days, for 12 hours a day, sat in my local maternity ward with Mrs Scooter Nik. Of the staff there, I'd say that a good 80% were of white, British origin. The odd thing though was, that of the 20% that weren't, the vast majority where in the more highly qualified posts.

This is to say that the midwives, nurses, cleaning and ancillery staff, Sister were all English, but all the specialist staff bar the anesthatist were from abroad. I've no idea what that tells us, but it must say something.

I'd also like to say that the Shorpe General Hospital's Maternity Unit staff were incredibly helpful, knowlegeable, efficient and informative from the midwife assistants at the coal face to the consultant we saw on a regular enough basis. Their effiency was in no way affected by their ethnicity or nationality.

Much prefer to use the local NHS drop in centres that are about these days for anything i would consider an emergency

Viagra repeat prescription?

When ever I've needed A&E I haven't given a tuppeny where the doctor/nurse was from and their skin colour.