A lot of patients are anything but emergencies though. Since it can be near impossible to get a same-day doctors appointment in some areas. In the South of Engl

A lot of patients are anything but emergencies though. Since it can be near impossible to get a same-day doctors appointment in some areas. In the South of England it can be weeks. So people just go to the hospital A&E dept instead, sometimes for quite minor ailments - although not always.