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It's the mamby pamby way people are these days, if they fart they think it warrants a trip to A&E. Man up !

It should be a case of the following:

A - Always call 999/attend A&E if
M - Medical emergency (diabetic, fit, dislocation, eye injury, head injury, bad asthma attack etc)
B - Blood loss, badly broken bones
U - Unconscious
L - Left or right sided weakness
A - Allergy with airway problem
N - Non-traumatic chest pain
C - Collapse or crashes
E - Everything else ring 111 or attend GP or WIC.

Obviously it's not an exhaustive list but you get the idea.

We have good services on Wirral. There are options of minor illness services, all day health centre. People go to a + e for ridiculous things when that time wasted on them could be spent on genuine cases. Each time a patient attends a+e warranted or not it costs their GP around £90