Ambulances Outside Wrexham’s A&E
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Hope the photo of the eleven ambulances waiting outside A&E tonight is sent to our AM’s Lesley Griffiths and Aled Roberts together with the Welsh Health Minister Mark Drakeford. They know what is happening but are doing nothing to alleviate the situation . They are putting lives in danger and the pressure on the staff must be intolerable ! Their silence is deafening on the subject!
BBC News – Patients ‘face long queues in ambulances outside A&E’
It looks like this is a problem across England and Wales.The longest wait in and ambulance was in the West Midlands and was OVER 8 hours! We here in Wrexham haven’t reached that level yet! Do the Welsh Assembly have a plan to solve the problem ? What steps have they taken to alleviate the situation here in North Wales ? What has Lesley Griffiths done about this issue on behalf of her electors?
The problem here is a catch 22.
I took my son to A&E last year on the advice of NHS Direct. He was given high priority and we waited 5 hours to be seen. He was admitted to hospital overnight and diagnosed with scarlet fever.
During those 5 hours waiting, there were a maximum of 8 ambulances outside, with patients in them and a waiting room full of patients. A large amount of those patients waiting could actually have gone to see their GP the next day but chose to go to A&E because they felt they couldn’t get an appointment. One woman had a splinter in her finger… another had a niggling cough that she’d had for a week. Couldn’t it be the job of the triage nurse to tell people, this is not an emergency, you need to see your GP, not us?
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