... As well as down (at least recently) to having something else really
important to do during weekend, i.e. watch football & tennis. All one misses
on Monday is work...
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From: Martyn Hodson <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Accident and Emergency Academic List <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Summer Attendances
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:26:41 +0100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Accident and Emergency Academic List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dunn Matthew
> Dr. (RJC) A & E - SwarkHosp-TR
> Sent: 11 July 2006 13:24
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> Subject: Re: Summer Attendances
>
>
> > Same is true in Oxford - we are also seeing on average a
> > third more patients
> > consistently on Saturday-Monday than the remainder of the
> > working week.
>
>
> Our figures are up on Mondays more than at the weekend. This
> started a couple of years ago, but seems to be becoming more
> marked. The other thing that started a couple of years back
> is that emergency admissions are lower at weekends than weekdays.
>
> Matt Dunn
But is this not just down to people being ignorant of OOH primary care
and waiting until Monday and producing a 'sicker' population of
potnetial admissions on mondays , plus of course those GPs who advise
"go to A+E if it gets no better"
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