How millions go to A&E with minor issues like a blocked nose
Millions of patients are going to Accident and Emergency departments across England with minor ailments, new figures reveal.
Analysis shows that over five years, A&E medics have treated nearly 1.9 million cases of headache.
Between 2020/21 and 2024/25, almost 1.4 million attendances were for a cough, while 1.2 million sought help for a sore throat.
Earache accounted for a further 1 million A&E visits, according to Press Association analysis. Other complaints included almost 69,000 for a blocked nose, 4,200 for hiccups, and 290,000 for constipation.
In spite of the blocked nose
And the emergency constipation
Can't be accidental constipation for A&E
Unless...
7 comments:
If you tell people, over and over, that their health is not theirs but owned by the medical profession who will solve all ills, and then you make accessing a GP difficult, then it is hardly surprising that people attend the A&E for the health answers they have been promised.
It is also not surprising that institutional healthcare includes all the 'institutional' penalties of centrally organised political interference.
I once had constipation so badly that no laxative would shift it. It became dangerous - I couldn't pee. Off to A & E.
Eventually I went to the loo and came back into the waiting room light-hearted.
"That's unblocked me, thank you. Now your loo is blocked."
We can't win against the Notional Health, can we? We apparently turn up in droves, clogging up the works, when they advise us not to ignore seemingly innocuous symptoms. What do we think they are - some kind of tax-funded healthcare system?
And in yesterday's paper I see that many many people are having to wait four weeks (!) or more for a GP appointment.
Naturally, in government terms, there is no connection between these two items.
DJ - another factor is that it's free. I've known people who see it as 'getting their money's worth' from the NHS.
dearieme - that can be serious of course, as it was with my father.
Jannie - it's bound to happen and they know it, but the political will to copy a better system isn't there.
Peter - it would be useful to know if there is a connection or if both GPs and A&E are clogged in some areas.
This might be a sweeping generalisation, but I bet it's the type of folk who choose to life their entire lives on benefits, have become totally dependant on the state and who are not used to being told no
If someone arrives at A+E with a sore throat, they should be told to go away. Ok, be told where they should go away to, pharmacy, tesco etc, but definately be told to go away
If doctors are actually seeing these people, they've only themselves to blame. Tell them no, once in a while, and they might actually start to grow up. Maybe
Bucko - that would be my sweeping generalisation too. GPs must know who they are as well.
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