NHS and brother stabbed and released day later??

[Magtheridon]

My brother is currently in the trauma ward after being admitted last night with a punctured lung, he'd been stabbed

So they've drained his lung and he's spent the night there and now they're on about letting him go?

Is a punctured lung not that serious then? I don't understand why he's not being kept in under observation for a week... I always thought something like that is pretty damn serious

Sorry to hear about your brother, OP.

He really is better off at home if the medics feel he's fit for discharge. Hospitals are horrible germ-ridden places and the last thing he needs is an infection.

Hope he makes a quick recovery.

2) they get him out the hospital, tick him off as a case done and dusted, so when he comes back in he'll be a new "case" (this is for the performance stats, so they can show reduced

He won't be counted as a new case, he'd be counted as a readmission. Which are counted in performance statistics, but not in a good way.

I had a hysterectomy late on a Tuesday and went home the following morning. They like to get you out quick these days and I'm grateful for that because I would rather recover in my own bed with my family around me.