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Well he knows how to get a headline!
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NHS Lothian medical director David Farquharson said the hospital was struggling to hit waiting time targets because of the number of people who turn up for instant treatment for “coughs and colds”.
He said young people in particular viewed the A&E at Little France – already the busiest in the country – as being the medical equivalent of a fast food restaurant.
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I've written several times to the EEN to complain about their ongoing mistaken references to the hospital, and they never printed my most recent letter.
It's the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, or RIE. That's what the staff call it. It's what doctors and porters in other hospitals call it. Even the sign at the front gate says it.
That aside, I've found A&E for walking wounded remarkably efficient for stuff that Really Needs Looking At Today. I did once spend an hour and a half waiting in a cubicle when two even-more-urgent emergencies came in at the same time, and felt a bit guilty for taking up room when I could've waited back in the, er, waiting area.
I don't go to fast food restuarants and I don't go to the ERI/RIE/IRE. QED?
At Stirling A&E I once had to wait for about 45 minutes with a guy whose shoulder was dislocated while an endless stream of snivelling (and mostly worse-for-wear) locals with minor ailments like stubbed toes were seen to. Most bizarre.
Is it not NRIE?
I waited 4 hours when I shattered my elbow a few years back. Mind you, they did have a stabbing come in and a significant police presence and (thankfully) I wasn't in pain (until they told me how serious it was and made me take some morphine...).
I would have thought getting lots of very quick to deal with patients would have made hitting the waiting time target easier, rather than harder. Also, it's not like RIE is somewhere most people would find easy to just wander over to if they were feeling a bit poorly.
I'm sure this is a problem (although doubt it is unique to Edinburgh) but doubt it is the whole reason for the failure to meet waiting time targets.
When I was admitting myself at the desk with a smashed collar-bone the man behind me in the queue seemed to give up and leave.
At some point, did there not exist a 'minor injuries clinic', for those sub A&E cuts and bruises issues? Perhaps at the Western ?
Anyway, while he is probably right about some silly people clogging it up, surely it cant be as busy as when it was located up from the meadows, and every weekend resembled a drunken warzone - I always thought it said a lot about society that there was almost permanent police presence at the weekends !
Minor injuries/walking wounded at the Western is still operative. I only found out about it in 2004 when I was advised to go there (rather than the RIE) to get stitched up (on the grounds that the finish would be neater) after being nedded in the head with a bottle, though when I chinplanted on the Mound two years later I went to the RIE for my chinstitches as the Minor Injuries clinic hadn't yet opened for the day.
Dave "At Stirling A&E I once had to wait for about 45 minutes with a guy whose shoulder was dislocated while an endless stream of snivelling (and mostly worse-for-wear) locals with minor ailments like stubbed toes were seen to. Most bizarre."
Not really:-
Morningsider "I would have thought getting lots of very quick to deal with patients would have made hitting the waiting time target easier, rather than harder."
It does... allegedly.
Sorry wingpig, slightly inapproriate given the circumstances, but I had a wee chuckle at the thought of someone stitching you up - I usually feel stitched up as well when I have dealt with any public body/council/govt/nhs etc !!
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