My experience of A&E

halogen

unforeseen wrote: »

I think the problem there is NHS24 rater than ED. It is a very rare ED that has an ophthalmologist on duty or even on call. The eye hospital is The place that will have the specialists that you need available for quick diagnosis.

EDs will only have consultants available for immediate life threatening problems such as Cardio etc.

Yes I agree with that in theory. Just that on the occasions it's happened I know there's been an opthamolgist in the local hospital but the ED staff thereare jobsworths who would rather waste 9 hours of my time (and of the person who has to drive me there) than have me wait a couple of hours until the opthamologist on site has 5 mins.