Sore elbow, possible chipped bone - wait for dr app or A & E when quiet for check-up?

Polmop

I would go to a&e as the doctor would probably refer you there anyway. It was an accident

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Ultimately, you can go to an Emergency Department (ED - It's not called A&E anymore) but just expect a very long wait (up to 4 hours). Your treatment is for 'unplanned care' so it's an appropriate place if you don't have a walk-in-centre available.

Person_one

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Ultimately, you can go to an Emergency Department (ED - It's not called A&E anymore) but just expect a very long wait (up to 4 hours). Your treatment is for 'unplanned care' so it's an appropriate place if you don't have a walk-in-centre available.

I love the way you've got a little bee in your bonnet about that.

peachyprice

I wonder when they'll get around to changing all the roads signs to hospitals that say A&E then

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Person_one wrote: »

I love the way you've hot a little bed in your bonnet about that.

I've sat through a 30 minute presentation on the changing of emergency department names.. it's important in my business to call things right in-front of customers (we just count it as an area of 'unplanned care')

Person_one

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I've sat through a 30 minute presentation on the changing of emergency department names.. it's important in my business to call things right in-front of customers (we just count it as an area of 'unplanned care')

You have to remember, it's not the same everywhere. Plenty of trusts still have 'accident & emergency' above the door, on all the signage and on all the literature/paperwork. In some, it's ED internally but still A&E to the public, deliberately.

It seems rather petty to keep correcting people on it, especially when they might not even be wrong!

(Also, I might just throw this phone out the window, it keeps making me look daft.)

LilElvis

Walk in centres don't usually have x-ray equipment and so both the GP and walk in are likely to send you to A&E anyway. It might be chipped or cracked, and both can be serious. Having injured both my elbows numerous times (v clumsy child and teenager) I have always had slings as they can't plaster. You really don't want it to heal incorrectly as this could lead to impaired mobility. I can hyper-extend one arm but the other doesn't fully straighten and is bent like a banana - and this was after having immediate treatment every time.

cazziebo

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Ultimately, you can go to an Emergency Department (ED - It's not called A&E anymore)

Is that so the govt can say they are not shutting A&Es down?

*whistles**runs away*

Wyre

Our A&E (or ED whatever the governments current term for it is) expects us to go to the doctor's first, the doctor will give a slip for x-ray if necessary and then there is no queueing for triage at the hospital, going straight to x-ray.

Of course we didn't know this when hubby had a suspected broken hand so we had to wait an hour and a half for triage, then an hour for x-ray and 3 hours to see a doctor.

I hope you are ok and get it sorted soon.

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Person_one wrote: »

You have to remember, it's not the same everywhere. Plenty of trusts still have 'accident & emergency' above the door, on all the signage and on all the literature/paperwork. In some, it's ED internally but still A&E to the public, deliberately.

It seems rather petty to keep correcting people on it, especially when they might not even be wrong!

(Also, I might just throw this phone out the window, it keeps making me look daft.)

Ironically, the NHS public-facing websites haven't been changed, and yes, a lot of the sign-age hasn't either. I found one NHS site where a staff nurse complains that the NHS hasn't updated its own sites.

My 'correction' is more about the term used "it was an accident so I should go to A&E".

Anyway.. the OP will probably be fine going to casualty/A&E/ED and will wait for 2-4 hours. They have a requirement for urgent care, and it's an ok place to go for it.