To think the fracture clinic should be staffed all the time

[Queeltie]

I have spent the afternoon in A&E with my sister. She has had a temporary plaster put on her broken leg. But she has to go back tomorrow to see an orthopaedic consultant as the fracture clinic was closed.
There were lots of people in A&E being sent to the fracture clinic. It seems a waste of money and time to have nurses giving temporary treatment, and then the next day the consultant having to see them and give them treatment.

My hospital fracture clinic put the fibreglass cast on top of the temporary plaster applied to my sister's broken wrist a week earlier by the A&E department. i understand the original temporary plaster would be normally removed before being replaced by a light and breathable fibreglass cast. Apart from being very heavy could both casts on the wrist lead to the infection?

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