here"When you look at that in terms of people going out, it’s only small numbers but those small numbers of people have a big impact on emergency departments."We are also operating under different circumstances.
In emergency departments we used to have waiting rooms with people sitting close to each other, or people waiting in corridors when we were really busy."None of that can happen anymore - A&E departments have to separate people."When patients understand that, obey instructions and cooperate with us, we can cope with quite a high volume of patients."It’s much more difficult when people are uncooperative, argumentative or under the influence of drugs and alcohol."The big concern this weekend is that a little bit of over-indulgence has.
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