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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
I have a great way for the NHS to be more productive, make it an offence for ' silly' ailments walking into A& E to use up valuable time, for which overworks the department.
Such as l was in A & E on Monday, and the amount of people that walked in WITH families with silly ailments, l couldn't believe it.
The NHS is the pride of this country, and should be looked after with kid gloves, BUT it has to stopped the big misuse that people use it for.
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Slight problem with that idea, Arthur.
People have different ideas of what constitutes a silly ailment. As such, any such rule might put people off who are suffering a genuine ailment.
For example, you have a pain in your chest. It feels a little like Wind. You know you can be prosecuted for going to the hospital with Wind, so what do you do? Risk prosecute, or risk finding out you are actually going through a heart attack?
A better way to make the NHS more productive is do something that my local HA attempted a few years back. They replaced a small, old, out of date hospital with a state of the art minor injuries unit with the idea that GPs would be able to book facilities to perform treatments and minor operations that their own surgeries are not equiped to perform. With the idea of stopping a lot of these patients with problems involving minor surgery going to A&E.
Unfortunately thanks, in part, to the targets put in place by the previous government for GPs, the local GPs refused to use it. Put simply they didn't have the time to use it. So, at great expense, it was refitted as a hospital.
If the GPs had been persuaded to use it, it would have saved our local NHS millions.