The UK has a great Health Care System! [And I'm Santa...] « A blog for people who love America.: "*Waiting times: Wait times were so long in the emergency rooms that the British government came up with one more regulation: patients must be seen in less than four hours.
Now, patients are held outside the hospital in a parked ambulance, for five hours or more, before being let into the emergency room. The government-mandated four hour clock doesn’t officially start until the patient actually come through the doors.
But the waiting doesn’t end there… Once you went through the doors, you have to wait again until a doctor treats you. If you ever go to the UK, beware: even a paper cut could be fatal…
Imagine you had to wait for hours for a life saving ambulance trip to the hospital…
One man with suspected poisoning had to wait three hours 47 minutes for an ambulance to drive less than a mile to treat him.
Others suffering from severe breathing difficulties have had to wait two hours for medical help to arrive.
A patient with severe back pain waited nine hours 11 minutes for paramedics to show up in London. The ambulance trust blamed a lack of vehicles.
Some “category-A” patients (those with life-threatening illness) had to wait two hours and 34 minutes.
Change we can believe in, for sure…"
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