00:00Good afternoon, my name is Christopher Sharkey, I'm one of the emergency medicine consultants
00:04working in Alton McGelvan ED. I am speaking to you today to appeal for your help in relation
00:10to what is going on in our department. Currently at half twelve on Monday the 16th of December
00:15we have 121 patients in the department. There's 63 patients waiting for admission onto one
00:21of the medical or surgical or other wards. Some of them unfortunately are waiting three
00:25days for a bed. So I'm appealing to you for your help. There are things you can do to
00:31help us out. First of all, if you do need to come to hospital we advise you to seek
00:37our help and we will treat you accordingly. There are alternative pathways that you may
00:41want to consider. For example, you could use your GP service, your local pharmacy, but
00:46again I want to emphasise to yourself that if you are well we are more than happy to
00:50see you, but we will prioritise the most unwell patients first which may result in longer
00:55waits for you. Thank you.
00:58Hi, I'm Neil Black, I'm one of the clinical medical leads in the hospital. While a lot
01:03of people who are in the emergency department for admission really need to be in admission
01:07and need inpatient care, some of those that are still here just need to go home and need
01:11support. So if you do have a relative who is in the hospital we may ask you to take
01:15them home as early as you can. Unfortunately that means that you might need to take some
01:19time off work or other things, but even that one person getting home makes a big difference
01:24to them, makes a big difference to the department. So if you do have a relative and you're asked
01:30to see if you can take them home, please offer significant amount of discretion with that
01:34and come as early as you can to help them get home.
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