Should the GP not have been able to do this?

[ohthatbloodycat]

This strikes me as a bit ridiculous, but do correct me if you feel I'm in the wrong.
My 15 year old got her ears pierced as a birthday treat a week ago. I think the earring on one side had been fitted a bit too tightly; it had always been tender, but got sore last night. My plan had been to go to the piercing place in the morning to ask their advice.
This morning when my daughter woke up, the stud part at the front had completely embedded itself in her lobe. All you could see was the butterfly sticking out the back. Her ear became swollen and very painful, unsurprisingly enough. I should add that she cleaned them each day religiously, and the other ear was fine.
Because the skin had closed over it in the night, I wasn't able to pull it out myself. I phoned our GP surgery for some advice. The receptionist checked and then came back to say that the GP wouldn't do it, and the practice nurse was busy all day. I then had the faff of phoning 111 (on GP's advice) and they eventually sorted me out an appointment at the A&E hospital miles away. There was no time to take the bus (I don't have a car currently), so I spent £20 on a taxi there. And then the bus on the way home. My daughter wasn't numbed up, or anything like that. The nurse warned her that it would be painful, as he pulled the stud through the skin of her ear. And it was, but over quickly thankfully!
This seemed like a palaver for a simple procedure, that surely the GP could have carried out. Rather than leave the paediatric A&E department to sort it out, particularly as Covid cases have risen in my city.
Even the NHS phone operator sounded surprised that they had refused to do it.
AIBU?

@igelkott2021, the following is more about aesthetic surgery than piercings but have certainly treated results of offshore and private UK cosmetic procedures gone badly wrong and seen patients who subsequently required extensive and repeated surgical treatment that cost the NHS much more than the savings the patient would have made by going overseas. I know some countries have arguably equal and better cosmetic 'surgery practice than the UK but the Venn diagram of great places and cheap places where cost conscious patients tend to go and which advertise the most doesn't always have an overlapping area.

It's only when things go wrong that assertions about aftercare can be tested. I know things can go wrong in cosmetic surgery in the UK. And I've seen when private practices in the UK palm off recovery to the NHS too.

I’m not sure what everyone’s issue is. The exact same thing happened to me. Of course the piercer wouldn’t do it.

Sounds like a minor injuries job

@Mrbob, the same to you with knobs on. What the eff is your problem?

No wonder the NHS is so bloody stretched

@FlyingBattie That's fine if you have services in your area.
Like I said upthread, our MIU is open 8-4, and only sees 16 years +.
All paediatric patients have to go to A+E here.
I wish everybody had the same access to non hospital services. It seems like a lottery!

Yes I said it might vary, I was suggesting why people might think it is wrong to go to A&E because here people would think it was wrong to go to A&E with that sort of issue and to be honest because MIU is usually faster it would tend to be first choice anyway.

There is an age cut off for ours but it is 2 so OPs DD at 15 would be expected to goto MIU here.