please dont get ill in ireland

skelliser

berty, from the jest of your other posts i gathered, and i could have taken you up wrong, that you think that when you arrive to a public A&E that you will be put into a private room or transfered to a private hospital because you have private health insurance, if you believe this you are completly and utterly misguided.
I really hope iv taken you up wrong.

I have private health and have been to A&E loads of times and you are treated like everyone else. Private health insurance only kicks in after you've been admitted or if your referred by your doctor to a consultant.

lost marbles

ImDave wrote: »

A&E activity for today. Tallaght is one of two hospitals in the country with one or more patients waiting >24 hours for admission.

http://www.hse.ie/eng/ed/16th_December_08_Emergency_Dept_Activity.PDF

A BLOODY DISGRACE :mad: and whats the limit before a state of emergency is declared .............i think its 35 ??

DublinWriter

Terry wrote: »

I had gone to my local surgery (my GP had just died) and the locum wasn't able to stitch my finger.

Therein lies another problem.

A lot of local GPs act as 'gatekeepers' for A&E and refer a lot of cases which they shouldn't. In this litigious age they refer almost *everything* that doesn't present more than a simple infection to their local A&E.

A&E itself is the secondary gatekeeper. For example, when I worked in Brussels I woke up one day with blood allover my pillow from a burst ear-drum. Down to the local hospital and referred straight to the ENT department bypassing A&E and saw several ENT specialists and consultants within an hour.

It's very easy to blame 'admin' staff for the woes of the Irish Health Service, but in my view the entire system needs to be over-hauled holistically.

Terry

DublinWriter wrote: »

Therein lies another problem.

A lot of local GPs act as 'gatekeepers' for A&E and refer a lot of cases which they shouldn't. In this litigious age they refer almost *everything* that doesn't present more than a simple infection to their local A&E.

A&E itself is the secondary gatekeeper. For example, when I worked in Brussels I woke up one day with blood allover my pillow from a burst ear-drum. Down to the local hospital and referred straight to the ENT department bypassing A&E and saw several ENT specialists and consultants within an hour.

It's very easy to blame 'admin' staff for the woes of the Irish Health Service, but in my view the entire system needs to be over-hauled holistically.

In fairness to the locum, he looked like he was just out of medical school.
My old GP would have thrown a few stitches in himself.

He did seem a bit frightened at the aspect of putting stitches in.

He just cleaned it up and sent me on my way.

The litigation thing does play a part though.
Something I can't stand is people making claims for the most pointless things.
I've been a passenger in numerous car crashes and I've never made a claim. I hate the whole claim culture thing.

I was once knocked off my bicycle by a moped and I didn't claim for that either. It was my fault for being drunk and trying to cycle home.
My hip was sore for a few months afterwards, but I just sucked it up.
Too many people looking for unneeded compo in this country.

LordSutch

How come A&E is now being called Emergency department ? ? ?

When did it change from A&E?

I thought A&E was a much better description of the department.

The_Valeyard

I was f*cking disgusted listening to the radio this morning with that lady refusing to answering questions on the budget for the hospitals or whether the hospitals were safe or not, made my blood boil, and I do not anger easily.

Gatling

LordSutch wrote: »

How come A&E is now being called Emergency department ? ? ?

When did it change from A&E?

I thought A&E was a much better description of the department.

You waited 6 years to ask

Highflyer13

We have a not functioning health system that wouldn't look out of place in a third world country. A shocking indictment on successive governments.

Trebor176

OP, I'm sorry to hear about your mother, and I hope she'll be ok soon. I did see a picture on Facebook of an elderly woman of 87, who was left on a chair with chest pain for over 16 hours, which is absolutely disgraceful. No person, especially an elderly person, should ever be subject to this sort of thing. She looked so uncomfortable.

I had been in Tallaght A&E around six years ago, and despite things seeming rather quiet there, I was waiting several hours (including being triaged) before I was finally sent for further examination. I was on a trolley for a while, but I was luckily given a bed in a unit within the A&E before being sent to the wards a couple of days later.

I have to say that the care I received both in A&E, the unit and up on the wards was exemplary. The nurses in general are really being stretched to the limit now, due to overcrowding and short staffing. I'm not surprised to read of nurses being reduced to tears from the stress, but they can some how carry on and give excellent care to patients. And God knows that some patients can treat the nurses with such contempt, they really shouldn't be treated at all. They are very much underpaid for the excellent work that they do.

Thread is from 2008. I'd hope the OP's mam has been seen by now.