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You can call any GP surgery to get emergency treatment for up to 14 days if you're not registered with a GP surgery or are away from home. https://www.nhs.uk/nh
by harvey9 7mo ago
You can call any GP surgery to get emergency treatment for up to 14 days if you're not registered with a GP surgery or are away from home.
https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/gps/gp-appointments-and-bookings/ https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/gps/gp-appointments-and-book...
- mgaunard 7mo agoWhile away from home, my son (5 yo) cut his finger and was in need of disinfectant and a bandage (steri strips). Pharmacy was useless, no medical skills or knowledge of their own products. Asked me to figure out myself what I needed and put it on my son myself. Local GP surgery sent us away: no registration, no visit. Me saying this was an emergency just made them suggest A&E. A&E is where we ended up, and while that definitely works, going to the emergency services of a large hospital for every little thing is not only a waste of my time but also of resources. It seems however to be the NHS way: whenever the littlest of troubles arise, just go to the hospital, or even call an ambulance.
- 0xffff2 7mo agoSorry for being too American to understand, but why would you need to talk to any medical professional to put a bandaid on your kid? Is this about NHS being paying for the bandaid? About medical expertise to apply a bandaid?
- mgaunard 7mo agoNot all disinfectants are child safe, and the wound was serious enough to require steri-strips (an alternative to sutures) -- it was not a matter of a bandaid.
- harvey9 7mo agoYou would have been best served by a Minor Injury Unit but not every town has one, so A&e is not excessive. The great majority of people going there do not need the full capabilities of it (resuscitation etc).
- bookofjoe 7mo ago1. Water is child safe 2. Steri-strips are available over the counter at any supermarket or pharmacy (in the U.S.)
- stuaxo 7mo agoThe chemist can sell you the right stuff for that.
- phatfish 7mo agoYou call 111 if you don't want to bother the 999 guys. 111 will tell you what you need to do, including "go to A&E". What is wrong with going to A&E for an (as you said yourself) emergency? A pharmacist dispenses medications and should know about their safe usage. They won't tell you how to bandage a wound.
- chrisjj 7mo agoPharmacy. Not pharmacist. Pharmacies provide much more than just medicine.
- mgaunard 7mo agoGetting a minor wound bandaged up is not what A&E is meant for, it's for life-threatening injuries. Going to A&E and waiting there also means you're losing 4 to 6 hours. 111 you just get some robot asking you a never-ending list of inane questions before someone tells you to either self-care at home or go to A&E. A pharmacist should be able to administer the supplies they sell, particularly wound dressing and care. It's a requirement in some other European countries like France (where pharmacists are doctors), but in the UK the reality is that most are unable to do so.
- happymellon 7mo ago111 do a lot more than that, they will get you a GP visit even if the GP claims to not have slots, and they will get medical professionals to come to you. If it was in hours, I'm surprised they didn't get a nurse appointment for the cut.
- lambdas 7mo agoA pharmacist is someone who is a chemical practitioner though? “Man, these cryptographers didn’t know a thing about tailwind. Useless!”
- happymellon 7mo agoAnd 111 was unable to help, even the GP they assigned to you turned you away?