Bringing your whole fucking family to A&E

It's a big deal if you can't sit down and are acutely unwell / have reduced mobility / frail / at risk of fainting etc or did you miss that bit where op said her husband had to wait in the car?

Ask staff to sort the seating. Hope your dh is seen soon

What does and doesn't count as a genuine emergency though?

My town doesn't have an MIU or Urgent Care. It's a&e three towns over or nothing

Sorry I laughed at 'foot family'

I hope your dh gets a seat and seen soon
I think there should be a limit on how many people join you in a&e. Surely the drs will only want one of them to accompany foot patient so the other 3 really are wasting chairs and could sit in their own car (like your poor dh). Or a bus stop, wherever, just not where patients need the chairs more

That's not just a sore throat - it's quinsy and it can easily be fatal without medical attention and antibiotics.

I was in hospital for an op recently and there were five interpreters taking up the seats. Not one staff member told them to move, patients were left to stand. I eventually had to ask one of them to give up their seat but I didn’t really have the strength to get into a dispute about it so wish there had been a policy in place about patients having priority over the seating.

I do think there should be charges introduced to cut down on the tyre kickers and unnecessary repeat visitors who call an ambulance every week etc. A&E should be for genuine emergencies.

Big sign up saying only one carer per patient.

IN EVERY SINGLE A AND E DEPT!

I wonder if their name is Boswell?

I was in a&e recently and the head nurse was making sure the chairs were for patients only! How disgusting!

Some people are just entitled dickheads, hope you found someone who could help sort the situation. And that your husband is OK ❤️

I think some of the hangers-on forget there are some genuinely sick people in A&E who feel very unwell. Almost like the name might suggest.

Similar experience here. A couple getting McDonald’s delivered and talking loud on their phone. Sat there for a good couple of hours and couldn’t work out which one was ill/injured. I was lucky, I only had a broken finger. The guy opposite me had broken his foot and was also sat on the floor.
The staff member who xrayed my finger said he wouldn’t have bothered to come in for a broken finger! Confirmed it was broken and told me to go. No treatment! No advice! No follow up.
Had to get a GP appointment to sort out some physio. A&E were useless.

I mean I get where you’re coming from. But also, it’s not the biggest of deals op

It’s the same at my local A&E.

They have a Subway and a Costa in the same building so people check in and then literally hot foot it for a foot long sandwich and ram it down their throats like it’s part of their treat day out.

Not seating when they are all grown adults. They have better things to be doing with their time.

Don’t laugh about the sore throat my dh actually got sent to a&e by our gp cus he had a sore throat! He then got a follow up gp appointment and hospital appointment all within a week, he’s better now but still has to go back in a few months to get checked. We was wondering if he should even go to the gp with “just” a sore throat I couldn’t believe it when he text to say he’d been sent to a&e, but apparently a sore throat can be dangerous as he had an abscess that could potentially block his airway

I knew someone would say this 🤣

OK, you could die listening to Sam Smith. And he could be on the tv screen too. There. Far worse 😉

Yep they do. There was a queue of Uber drivers last time my dad was there.

Although our A&E do make announcements saying only 1 carer per patient and everyone else has to sit outside in their cars.

Wow, that's niche! 😂😂😂

That is incredibly rude that they're taking seats from patients. I'm sorry. They're should be some signage.

Not as bad but when I was pregnant and at the high risk unit, all the chairs were taken up by patients and they're support person. I went to the regular unit and still couldn't get a chair. I asked a woman if I could sit beside her (empty chair) and she said it was her husband's. I was ready to pop, but ok standing. Some people are so lame.

That seems different somehow to people munching their way through KFC in a waiting room. Your takeaway seems very much deserved, waiting room take away not so much.

Blame all those TV shows where the whole cast goes to the hospital when one person is admitted 😂

I think the reception staff need to be responsible for ensuring that the waiting area is being run properly - seats for those who need them, no KFC deliveries, but it's easier to just ignore it all as it's not impacting on them.

I found the same when i had my baby - one woman had a huge extended family in to visit, they were really noisy and the staff just dissapeared.

I had to hunt a staff member down when they'd overstayed visiting hours by 30 mins, she very grudgingly reminded them of visiting hours, she just didn't want to be involved.

I wouldn't have a problem with what you describe at all - there's a good reason for it - but a family meal deal for five people who have absolutely nothing wrong with them and could go home (or somewhere else) to eat?