'Our job is to keep people out of A & E.

[celeste]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63894311?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

As the pressures of winter and the Covid treatment backlog grow, the NHS is struggling. In Manchester, one organisation is pioneering a new way to care for people that tries to reduce the burden on the health service.

It's the first call-out of the day for nurse Manju and pharmacist Kara in north Manchester.

They are on their way to see Steven, who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and had a fall the previous night.

This might have led to a call-out for an ambulance crew and a visit to A&E. But instead the Manchester Local Care Organisation (LCO) stepped in.


'A&E is absolute chaos - I spent 15 hours on a trolley'[/size][size=78%]My mum's 40-hour wait to get to A&E with hip break[/size]

[Parky]

Two things about a and e ,1, people are  going there for cuts and bruises ,headaches , because they can’t sleep and many more minor injuries ,I know this because my cousin works in a and e . 2, the genuine ones who have serious illnesses  ( apart from accidents etc) are going there because they cannot see a general practitioner , the sooner the government makes the doctors too see their patients the better

[celeste]

Who would want to wait hours to be seen for a bruise,  cut or headache - surely if they couldn't see a doctor then perhaps the local clinics would be of use?

[Parky]

You wouldn’t believe some of the stories my cousin tells me about a@e.