To say stop moaning about A&E

That's bloody awful I'm so sorry. 💜

So sorry for your loss.

I don’t think it’s that so much as saying it can be good. It’s not universally crap.

my local health authority requires a referral from 111 to go to A&E (unless ambulanced, obvs) which seems to control the flow. I cut my hand badly at about 5. Phoned 111 for advice. Was told to go to A&E and given a check in window. Fairly quickly seen by a triage nurse who assessed me and steri stripped/glued the wound. Home just over 3hrs after the injury. At the time people needing a dic had a 5.5 hr wait, which doesn’t seem bad for a Friday.

Sure. People have one good experience and therefore conclude every person with a bad experience must be making it up.

My mum died on a trolley in a corridor.

My experiences have been similar, and honestly if I compare A&E in the last 5 years to A&E when I was a kid 30+ years ago I would say that we spent a lot longer waiting in A&E when I was a kid.

in the last 5 years, I went in with a gallstone attack at 3am on a Sunday morning. They were very busy with several sets of bruised and bloody men accompanied by police officers and multiple drunk/drugged up people. Despite that they still had me through triage, on meds and in for a CT Scan within 2hrs, then off in an ambulance to be admitted to a different hospital that could better cater to my needs and hour later.

Then last year I went in on the advice of 111 when a glucose sensor I’d bought myself because I was concerned about some possible diabetes symptoms started sending me alerts about exceptionally high sugar levels. I was in the hospital a total of 6 hrs, during that time I had several glucose readings, blood tests, an ECG, was diagnosed with diabetes, saw the specialist Diabetes nurse, was given an education session on managing the condition and a demo on injecting insulin and sent home with a bag full of medication, testing kits, leaflets and a continuous glucose monitor.

You had ONE good experience and you're assuming everyone else who hasn't wasn't an emergency? Yeah your critical thinking skills aren't the best, are they?

Far too many people go go A&E when they don't need to be there, staff leaving the NHS in droves, and people clogging it up that shouldn't be there, are why people are on the floor in corridors.

Lucky you.

And lucky me as we’ve had two positive experiences with DD in a&e recently.

But this is a really crap post as people dying in corridors were real emergencies and they were let down, badly.

People have every right to complain about the shocking failures of the NHS, especially at a worrying stressful time for them or their loved one.

You can thank the staff who helped you without lecturing people who haven’t been as fortunate as your son or my daughter. And we shouldn’t need to be grateful for an essential service we all pay for doing its job.