Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 day ago
111 doesn’t help. I got an insect bite a while ago and had an allergic reaction to it so I and rang 111. After working their way through their ‘is this person actually dying’ script they told me to go to A&E. I felt like a time-waster, but went along because that’s what I’d been told to do. But, realistically, I could probably have waited untill the following day and gone to see my GP.
echodot@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
I had an eye infection, just conjunctivitis, unpleasant but not serious. However 111 decided I was going blind and needed to go to get it looked at in person. I wish I just ignored them because at the end of the day I basically just got sent to the pharmacy in Tesco’s.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
The doctor who saw me at A&E was pretty rude about 111 and said they pretty much just send everyone his way regardless of what’s wrong with them.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Not been my case. I had an issue where I thought I may have had ligament or tendon damage that felt like it was healing from the last few days of having it. Which I feel like would’ve been an easy “just go to A&E” situation is that’s what they favoured. But they just told me what I should do at home to help it out and said if it persisted beyond X more days, THEN go to A&E if you can’t get a GP appointment. Which was sound advice because it turns out I felt much better the next day haha.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
The problem is if you have anything that obviously requires medical intervention, even if non-serious, they can’t just issue a prescription over the phone, so you up having to go to the GP or A&E anyway, so why not just go there directly and skip the phone call?