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There are lots of people who use A&E as a drop in centre for non-emergency care. A fee might push people with a bit of a cold to lower cost alternatives like community health centres.
WTF.
I agree to identity for non-emergency to ensure medical records are present, and that services aren't being abused.
But... emergency is emergency. There is never a scenario that I would agree to that would deny or even delay any emergency treatment due to a request for identity, payment, or anything. If someone is in need, if it's an emergency, then that's the priority... nothing else.
Fuck the fascist extension and introduction of charges in A&E on the back of this racist culture that seems to exist at the moment.
Sure we can have a more efficient and better health system, but A&E... keep the idealogy a long way from that.
Velocio-
You can easily do that filter at initial assessment. Emergency, go through there and get treated. Non-emergency go down there and show some id
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The first step would be to make GPs much more helpful and easier to use.
I used to work in public health and it certainly was the case in the early 00s that people tended to use A&E for non emergency purposes if they had a gripe with their local GP service.
Ramsaye
Stonehedge
There are lots of people who use A&E as a drop in centre for non-emergency care. A fee might push people with a bit of a cold to lower cost alternatives like community health centres.