to think that nearby doctors should help in a potential emergency

[Gwenhwyfar]

Woman bleeding from the head, but still conscious and walking around just outside an infirmary. Someone goes in to ask for a doctor while we're waiting for the ambulance to arrive and is told one will be along. 15 minutes later security guard comes out saying no doctors are available - they are there but not 'available'. The infirmary doesn't deal with urgent cases, so why couldn't a doctor/nurse leave the routine appointment to see to an emergency? Ambulance arrived in the end. I know the infirmary doctors are not A&E doctors, but surely any medical help could have been useful and don't they have a responsibility to help people even outside their scheduled work?

Do you really not understand how the emergency services work? The police don't do lifts to hospital.

Actually this is incorrect - police do transport to hospital. I've been four times via police car.

finding I'm a police officer and I have driven people to hospital but it is very much dependant on the circumstances, it's not routine and shouldn't be expected to be.

I don't think it should be expected, I was just pointing out that it does happen. I wouldn't call the times the police have drive me as a "lift" either though, that's true.

Only once was it not related to a crime either though.

Doctors wont help with first aid at the surgery for minor injuries because they're not paid extra to do so as they used to be. All about money.

Doctors are ABSOLUTELY OVERRUN with work at your local GP surgery and do not have time to spare to see random patients without appointments - unless it is a walk in surgery (I am not a GP)

If the doctors stopped what they were doing to help people with wounds like this, eventually people would stop going to A&E and would just pop down to their local surgery to avoid the wait

I don't think you really need medical training to know that a bleeding head in a person who is able to walk and talk is not automatically a problem requiring immediate medical attention. It just seems like basic common sense.

GPs aren't actually the best people to deal with pre-hospital care, usually. It's much better to allow people with pre-hospital care training deal with such emergencies.

Laughing at the thought of my GP having to deal with a crisis on the roadside, he'd be a mess. He struggles to deal with paperwork on his desk (but he's still a lovely GP).

I don't think you really need medical training to know that a bleeding head in a person who is able to walk and talk is not automatically a problem requiring immediate medical attention. It just seems like basic common sense

Quite.

Why did the OP feel the need to start a thread on here rather than spend 10 mins doing a bit of basic research and educating herself slightly?

So many threads on here from people who can't be bothered to use google and their eyes to read and their brain to process.