To ask what your local a&e is like

[Coldnights]

I know a few months back hospital a&Ed were empty. Wondering i they are still the same or if more people are going.

I was at mine the Sunday before last, and I was literally the only person there until just before I got called in. Got there at about 7.50am and was called in at 8.10- ish. Was also there 4 days earlier than that, in the afternoon, and was out (having had an unpleasant emergency procedure done!) in under 2 hours. Place was not empty that day, but not crowded either.

We're back to normal intake numbers in the ED where I am in New York. There is a bit of a covid spike happening, but it's in very specific areas.

Had to take my eldest to be checked over after an accident the other day, the queue for reception was snaking around down a corridor. Luckily they had a separate children's area otherwise we'd have been waiting quite a while. This was a weekday lunchtime, city hospital.

Empty .
Got an x ray and the results in under an hour last week

Ours got downgraded to minor injuries. Hidden from public scrutiny by the covid madness. Not busy at all now.

But the a&e in the city is jam packed all hours every day.

Not checked for a while but numbers were. Where near normal last few times I've looked on the computer.

*nowhere

Twisted my ankle over the weekend, possibly a handful of people and my XRay was done within 45 minutes of me being there. Large town hospital serving a large area.

I know a couple of people who work in 2 large A&Es who’ve been twiddling their thumbs throughout the pandemic.

I spend lots of time in a+e due to my role. Patient numbers are definitely increasing a lot now but nothing unusual. However the staffing for us is definitely down from usual

I went recently and was back to normal. I waited 4 hours to be seen (Hillingdon)

Had to go to mine on a Sunday afternoon after an accident a couple of weeks ago. In all I was there about 4 hours, including a CT scan and being patched up. It wasn't busy, there were maybe 6 or 7 other people waiting in the same area.

I was in the childrens a+e last week and you have to walk through the adults to get to it. Both were normal.

This will totally depend on where you are in the country, COVID rate wise.

Empty.

Fairly empty and I'm in one of the worst hotspots. On Monday there were 5 critical patients in who had a positive COVID test result.

Sounds like a mix then