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Originally Posted by Taf
Triage is the secret. But the few times I have had to go (or be taken in an ambulance) to an ER/A&E/Casualty there has been no sign of active triage. Just queues that got longer and longer, with some patients collapsing or bleeding profusely, babies and kids screaming, tempers fraying, (admin) staff being abused, fights breaking out.
In this fairly large city, it seems daft to have only one emergency department, and even dafter to have one so undermanned that it is scarey to patients.
It's the sharp end of the NHS, so why are they cutting resources?
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I've been in a number of A&E's over the years with major cuts and i have found they differ greatly some are good and some not so good ,i think it's down to the individual hospitals management as to how their A&E's are run