I HAVE some comments to add to the letters about A&E and the urgent care centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital (News Shopper, October 1).
On a Friday afternoon in June, my wife fell and broke her ankle. I took her by car to Queen Mary’s Hospital.
We went first to the urgent care centre where she was assessed promptly by a nurse, then X-rayed, again without delay.
She was then passed to the A&E department where she was seen by a doctor who arranged for her to be kept in and operated on the following morning.
We were very pleased with the service and treatment she received.
My point is the urgent care centre and the A&E department work very well together but if the A&E had not been there, my wife would have been sent away to another hospital with all the delay and trauma this would have caused.
However, the proposal to close the A&E is still on the table. Why change a system which is working well?
It seems very clear the reasons must be financial and have nothing to do with patient care.
BRIAN AYRES
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