Probably treating other patients- possibly elsewhere- but responded quickly as they are part of the emergency response team. When that bleep goes off, you pretty much drop whatever you are doing (or stop as soon as it safe to do so, if you can’t literally just stop) and get to the emergency or cardiac arrest ASAP.
I understand your frustration with waiting times- lord only knows we are too- but it’s not cause we are sitting sipping cups of tea or playing pool while people languishing a&e or on admission wards waiting to be assessed.
in your case, it does seem possible that he wasn’t triaged properly as it seems unusual to leave an infant that has signs of sepsis to wait that long, or not to triage a child of that age at all- so again, I understand the anger and frustration. But, individual errors aside, waiting times are not long because staff don’t care/can’t be arsed or are doing nothing (of course, there will be some staff who are lazy/waste time- as in any workforce- but not the majority)- it’s because service demand outstrips funded service provision by quite some way.
And we don’t even have all the staff we should have/are funded for as there is a recruitment problem across all professions/sectors and at all grades- from senior doctors, to trainee Dr’s, all grades of nursing, care assistants pharmacy, physio & OT (aNd their ancillary support staff), psychologists, lab staff (both qualified and assistants/technicians), admin, cleaning staff, catering- you name it, we have issues recruiting and have gaps….
Staff shortages (in both primary and secondary care) + chronic mismanagement of workforce planning + austerity/service cuts + a pandemic and the catching up needed + a crisis in social care = the current mess we have.