Lacuna
In Gwent, we are told to only go to the Emergency Department for "life-threatening conditions", and yet the tier below is only for "minor injuries". So where do we go for things that threaten limb but not life? Or for more minor things that need checking out, e.g. recently I had a collapse at the supermarket checkout. (I did feel unsteady at best for a few minutes before the collapse and brief unconsciousness.) This seems to be a lacuna in the guidelines. Of course, when I did go there I was pushed from pillar to post. And the test that was in the end actually revealing, the blood test, wasn't done until after 10-12 hours. The nurse was very surprised it hadn't been done, then did it alarmingly quickly. The CT scan was normal (they did say it wasn't the best CT scanner but would find the big stuff). Still, a full work-up is I guess useful, and under the NHS it only cost me about £20 (a taxi home plus vending machine stuff).