Welshtel
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Incredible bit of reporting from a Daily Mail report today, (I can't believe these STUPID PEOPLE - apart from the time wasting of staff who should be dealing with real emergencies, it carries nasty germs into the hospital and shows just how much of a wimp this woman is if she can't clean a kids shoes that has dog Sh** on it. One comment said that she should be beaten around the head with the offending shoe).
The report:
"A woman who took her daughter to A&E because her daughter got dog mess on her shoe has been branded as 'irresponsible'.
As Whittington Hospital, North London, struggles to cope with more admissions since the launch of the 111 non-emergency helpline, the unnamed mother was criticised for wasting doctors' time.
Councillor Martin Klute, chairman of the hospital's local scrutiny committee, said casualty staff should be able to spend their time treating people with real health issues.
He said: ‘The thing with these kind of cases is the time-wasting it causes.
‘I’m lost to explain why someone should behave as stupidly as that. That sort of behaviour is irresponsible and is causing a rise in numbers.
He added that hospitals have been struggling to deal with the fallout after 111 was introduced.
Whittington Hospital is missing national targets for dealing with patients amid an 11.5% hike in visits.
The hospital met national targets of dealing with 95% of patients within four hours last year.
But since the new phone line started last month the hospital has seen an increase of 50 admissions per day, up from 250 in 2012.
Cllr Klute, chair of Islington Council’s health scrutiny committee, said: ‘The people who are answering calls on the helpline are not medical professionals, they are administrators.
‘And so you get people turning up to A&E for things they shouldn’t.
‘It’s incredibly risky.’
In April, the hospital was seeing 92.85% of people within four hours.
Figures for the end of May show the hospital was in the bottom five of NHS trusts across London for the target, 19th out of 22.
A Whittington Hospital spokesman said six extra staff have now been drafted in to A&E.
He said: ‘We will always assess and treat people who come to our emergency department."
If people waste hospital time in ways like this, they should get (minimum) a heavy charge for the time wasting, and a ban from A&E or be struck off the NHS and made to go private from there on.
Why should the NHS HAVE to take people like this. There should be a clause that allows the NHS to dump people like this from their books.
The report:
"A woman who took her daughter to A&E because her daughter got dog mess on her shoe has been branded as 'irresponsible'.
As Whittington Hospital, North London, struggles to cope with more admissions since the launch of the 111 non-emergency helpline, the unnamed mother was criticised for wasting doctors' time.
Councillor Martin Klute, chairman of the hospital's local scrutiny committee, said casualty staff should be able to spend their time treating people with real health issues.
He said: ‘The thing with these kind of cases is the time-wasting it causes.
‘I’m lost to explain why someone should behave as stupidly as that. That sort of behaviour is irresponsible and is causing a rise in numbers.
He added that hospitals have been struggling to deal with the fallout after 111 was introduced.
Whittington Hospital is missing national targets for dealing with patients amid an 11.5% hike in visits.
The hospital met national targets of dealing with 95% of patients within four hours last year.
But since the new phone line started last month the hospital has seen an increase of 50 admissions per day, up from 250 in 2012.
Cllr Klute, chair of Islington Council’s health scrutiny committee, said: ‘The people who are answering calls on the helpline are not medical professionals, they are administrators.
‘And so you get people turning up to A&E for things they shouldn’t.
‘It’s incredibly risky.’
In April, the hospital was seeing 92.85% of people within four hours.
Figures for the end of May show the hospital was in the bottom five of NHS trusts across London for the target, 19th out of 22.
A Whittington Hospital spokesman said six extra staff have now been drafted in to A&E.
He said: ‘We will always assess and treat people who come to our emergency department."
If people waste hospital time in ways like this, they should get (minimum) a heavy charge for the time wasting, and a ban from A&E or be struck off the NHS and made to go private from there on.
Why should the NHS HAVE to take people like this. There should be a clause that allows the NHS to dump people like this from their books.
