I am not sure what West Middlesex is playing at. I had to take my wife there 3 weeks ago at approx 8.30pm on a Saturday night. Reception told us there was a 4 hour wait even though it didn’t look too busy. They asked us if we wanted to wait!! Not sure what they expected us to say....why would we go to A&E if we didn’t think we needed a Doctor? The whole time we waited the TV screens reminded us that there was a 4 hour wait. As far as I could see some people who arrived after us who were deemed to be ‘more urgent’ were seen within half an hour to an hour. I didn’t have a problem with that as I fully appreciate some issues are more urgent than others. My wife was seen after about 2 hours and by that time there were only 4 patients waiting. However, the TV screens still ‘warned’ people that the waiting time was 4 hours. As we were leaving the reception was still telling newcomers that the wait would be 4 hours even though she could clearly see there were very few people still waiting. Why would they do that? Is it to try prove a point regarding statistics or......??? I really can’t figure out the motivation in wanting to make poorly people more anxious
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