Bad management would be my call, as in August 2019 I managed to break my femur, which in turn caused what the surgeon described as a minor nuclear explosion, destroying my left hip. I waited from 9.25 nearly three hours for an ambulance. I must admit that I was screaming by then.
Part of the problem in this area was that they closed the local A&E, making it a privately run Minor Injuries day time only. That means every elderly person who has a fall or other problem, now has to go to Southampton or Bournemouth/Poole. The ambulances are then unavailable for new passengers for nearly three hours … and that’s pre-Covid cleaning etc. Plus, of course, A&E are saturated.
I might have been a little unhelpful when, after being left on a trolley until morphine (no gas and air since transfer) wore off and radiologist tried to move my leg. Fun times.
Bad luck if you have an accident or heart attack around the time carers discover their client had a problem overnight.
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