Hurt my foot, can't get to minor injuries:( wtf do I do?

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So earlier today I was chasing the toddler and I put my foot in a hole on the path and my foot turned over.

It was at the bottom of the garden so managed to gather her up and get home but I can barely walk on it, just keep it in one position and shuffle.

I have doctors surgery right across the road but she said I'd have to go to minor injuries without even seeing me.

The problem is, I live rurally with a dependent and breastfed baby and no car. Minor injuries is 20 miles away and public transport stops at 4pm.
I also can't walk enough to do it in my own so my husband would have to come which means bringing the other two, and there's a risk we won't be seen until too late to get the last bus/train home.

Taxi is completely unaffordable.

I'll have to painkiller and elevate it until it feels better right? And risk it being broken because what else do I do?
I can't call an ambulance for this that's ridiculous

What's not clear about " i live rurally...with no car"?

Not sure if you've gone forever op. It's fine to leave it until tomorrow and see how you feel. I suggest you ring 111 and ask about patient transport. If there's no patient transport can you hobble to the bus stop tomorrow? Alternatively, contact your neighbours (village whatsapp?) and see if anyone's going into town tomorrow and can give you a lift (might need to do that tonight). Can you express milk for the baby?Does your husband work and if so can he take time off for a family emergency? Hope you feel better soon.

If you need to use a taxi, you should agree this in advance with the hospital or ICB before you travel.

Call the minor injuries unit.

My DD had an NHS taxi pick her up take her to hospital and back for and out of hours eye clinic trauma appt.

Where is the we? I means I
I live rurally with no car myself,
My husband has a car.
I can’t drive it (medical reasons)

So the I usually means I
otherwise it would be we live rurally with no car

She’s gone very quiet, perhaps she found her way to urgent care?

Very late to see this but in these circumstances I might have put the situation on a community Facebook page and asked for a lifetime and help or 111 and explain situation

Well I said NHS 111 and I think I will bow out now as there is no better advice I can give. They can arrange transport, they can book appointments etc. But it is important to tell them everything you have been told/done from early interactions with the service (i.e. the GP) so that they know what advice you have been told and can advise accordingly if you cannot be seen the same day.

I’d give it a day or two and see how it is. Take painkillers and elevate it. Probably be fine

So am I. What a total jobsworth, and how horribly unhelpful in a rural area.

Still - no doubt lots of people will be along soon to tell us how wrong we are.🙄

Neither GP or 111 can X-ray ops ankle or use x-ray vision to tell if it's broken. I also imagine if she's managed to write a post on Mumsnet she can Google NHS advice on potential sprains/strains/broken bones.

It needs an x-ray like GP advised. In future a plan for these situations even just emergency taxi money kept aside.

As has been explained, this is a situation for minor injuries.
The GP can't be the minor injury unit just because the OP can't get herself to it.

Miles off calling the GP a 'jobsworth' when they have appropriate lying advised where the OP needs to attend to obtain the appropriate assistance. Ridiculous.

NHS 111 can book patient transport to and from the MIU for the x-ray, they can do online triage with a medical professional and help her to secure an appointment time if required. You don't seem to know how 111 works.

I know I said I wouldn't come back to this thread, but yeesh. You're wrong.

I can drive but wouldn’t seek medical help for this unless it didn’t heal within a couple of weeks 🤷🏼‍♀️

I didn't know that 111 can book patient transport except for an ambulance so that is good to know.

I am aware they do online triage,however in my area MIU are all walk in only though and you can't book an appointment, certainly not for an x-ray which is what has been advised by GP. You can book extended hours or out of hours GP appointments via 111.

There has to be a car surely?! Or some mode of transport?

The GPs are not in the business of guessing. This is an MIU matter and they can't make exceptions for adults who can't or won't arrange some kind of transport.

Hmm, are you sure?

NHS 111 online or phone (111) provides 24/7 urgent clinical triage for minor injuries, directing patients to the best local care, such as Urgent Treatment Centres or Minor Injury Units (MIUs). It offers booked appointment slots to reduce waiting times, replacing many walk-in services.

Admittedly that's taken from the Welsh NHS 111 website, but none of us knows where she lives, so putting someone off calling the very obvious service that is 24/7 is strange. If they can't, then they won't, but just saying they don't do appointments for MIU is wrong, they do in my area.

I'm certain. A colleague had a sports injury that needed an x-ray recently. None of the MIU's would allow booked appointments. 111 said need an x-ray - that's it. Offered information on nearest A&E or MIU. I work in Wales colleague drove 30 minutes down the road to a MIU in England I had used about 12 months ago when my DD injured her ankle playing sport.

A lot of GPs would not be trained in assessing injuries. It's not a core part of GP training. The vast majority of practices are not commissioned to deal with injuries, and thus have no obligation to employ people who can deal with them. And the GMC very much says not to step outside your competence. The GP gave sensible advice.

So the website is wrong? And also when I booked an appointment for a broken bone via NHS 111 x-ray that was wrong too? In Wales.

Exactly! Surely, it's most likely to be a sprain? If this happened to me (even in a city, with access to taxis and public transport), I definitely wouldn't be doing anything for a couple of days, until I knew how it was progressing. People on this website are very dramatic and want to rush to A&E for the slightest thing.

You need an x-ray to rule out a fracture so you do need to go to A&E but you could choose to go at a time that’s more convenient e.g in the morning. In the mean time employ RICE Rest, Ice, Compress (tubigrip if you have it) and Elevate

You really do not need an x ray at this stage

The dr said she did.

They always say that. I’d just see if it feels better or worse