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> 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
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> > 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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