At Drs, not sure what to do.

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Got chest pain feels like someone's kicked me in the breastbone. Hurts to move, hurts to breathe more than shallow.

In queue for speaking to reception, already been told might not be any appointments left. They will see me with this won't they?

And this is everything that is wrong with NHS.

I hope you're ok OP.

Seriously? You have an emergency ambulance in your sight waiting to collect you and you are updating on MN 🙄

You’re in the back of an ambulance, blue lights going and you’re still posting?

Put the phone away.

Where are you now? In the ambulance? Better to be a tit than dead.

OP: won’t assert herself to be helped in doctor’s surgery. Will announce the flashy blue lights that 111 have sent.

And this is everything that is wrong with NHS.

This is everything that is right with the NHS. OP tells someone what is wrong and an ambulance is with her in minutes. That's brilliant.

"Blue lights and sirens... gawd. I feel like a right tit."

Oh cringe dont blame you op! I'm struggling to imagine anyone needing an ambulance being able to use their phone as well. It's done now though so just put your phone away so at least it looks like a full on emergency otherwise you'll die of embarrassment later when thinking about it!

Blimey op I hope you are ok. Very glad they called an ambulance.

I’m glad you’re going to get appropriate help.

If ANYTHING like this happens again, you MUST get medical attention. It doesn’t matter if a hospital is in special measures and busy. You cannot use that as an excuse not to go, it’s too important for you to get seen.

What would happen to your kids if something happened to you? No one likes going to a hospital or A&E (well, no one in their right mind anyway) but sometimes you just have to x

I was all in with this until an update from the ambulance. Hope you get the help you need OP

Bombardier25966 she was IN the GP surgery and had to go outside and make a call.

Slow hand clap for the amazing NHS that no one can call fault on

They're experts and they wouldn't send you blue lights and sirens if they didn't think you needed them. No reason to feel like a tit.

Well done for calling 111, and well done 111 for sending an ambulance. Paramedics can do ECG, blood pressure, monitoring etc in the ambulance.

For posters saying go to A&E, you will be seen immediately / a priority, it doesn't always work like that. In my local A&E (large hospital in London), until very recently the system in A&E worked that you took a ticket on arrival and were called for triage. When I went, it took an hour before my ticket was called!

Security were there and when a person fell off their chair / collapsed, security put them back on the chair!

And this is everything that is wrong with NHS

Perhaps you could explain what you mean here @RollerJed ?

Seems a bit odd that you think there is something wrong when a person seeking medical attention gets medical attention

Find it a bit odd you're being blue lighted to hospital whilst posting on mumsnet

Either way hope you get it sorted op.

she was IN the GP surgery and had to go outside and make a call.

Only because she didn't actually tell them what the situation was.

Slow clap to the OP perhaps

@RollerJed

Your comments actually disgust me.

The NHS are not fucking mind readers. They didn't know the OP had chest pain when she went into the surgery because the OP didn't bother to tell them.

It was OP choice to call 111 from outside.

You need to go to A&E.
The GP will send you there anyway if you are having chest pains.

Attention seeking much? Can't adult up and tell receptionist you require to see a doctor urgently but go in a blue light ambulance? What a waste of NHS resources all because you couldn't speak up to a receptionist? Then complain that NHS is underfunded?

No one on here knows if OP has serious heath problem or is like my drama llama work colleague who can turn getting a cold into Being Rushed Into Hospital. So its a bit pointless. Hope you're better soon.

Ring 111. Seriously, do it and they will tell you to go directly to A & E. Say you think you're having a heart attack if need be.

That's what I don't understand, why are people saying to go to a and e when she's already at the docs who could sort any further attention needed way quicker

Because "some" GPs and nurses refuse to come out of their offices when there's an emergency outside. I've seen it myself in a GP waiting room when someone was carried in bleeding badly - receptionist phoned through but no one would come out to deal with it and in the end she had to call 999 for an ambulance and do basic first aid herself. That's diabolical when there are properly trained medical staff just a few feet away.

And this is everything that is wrong with NHS

Haven't read the whole thread, just got as far as this judgemental statement.

No, the whole of National service isn't wrong, this happened in one location to one person.

When I walked into our local NHS surgery feeling exactly the same, the receptionist took one look at me, started to say go to A&E and then said I'll arrange an ECG with a nurse - that was straightaway. Then into a doctor's room, who thought I was having a heart attack, given another ECG, tablet under the tongue, defibrillator brought in by a nurse, a second GP came to offer help, GP called an ambulance and rang my DP. Off to A&E. It was high blood pressure.

Our NHS is superb and has been all this year for both of us.

I'm afraid I do get angry when poster lump the whole of the country together.

Ring 111. Seriously, do it and they will tell you to go directly to A & E.

And cancel that cheque on the way to hospital too.

What's wrong with updating Mumsnet (clearly the only dubious source of support the OP is seeking right now) while being blue-lighted to hospital? It's not like she's driving the ambulance after all.

I hope you are ok OP