> Not so fast, Steve. It's common knowledge that Kettering started the "see and treat" initiative, but it's also well known that they practise this during office hours only. They do not have consultant presence in the evenings and in my view that's leaving your department wide open for precisely the sort of disaster that Danny has highlighted.
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We try and prevent major cock ups in the dept. by sheer vigillance. However we also have a group of what we call accepted patients. They have been seen by the GP and are referred to the medics or the surgeons and this group of patients give some cause for concern as there are sometimes delays in them being seen.
I was under the mistaken belief that they were not the responsibility of the A&E consultants. I was mistaken and the message is that while they are under your roof the resonsiblity is yours.
I have been a bit sceptical over the past year of so about trick and treat to put it mildly. My suspicions were correctly founded. It doesn't require a degree in rocket science
Best wishes to the list (even the quasi acaedemics)
Danny McGeehan
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