Reasons people visited Scunthorpe General Hospital accident and emergency department
A TOTAL of 4,973 people visited A&E at Scunthorpe General in December, with 5,079 attending last month.
The reasons were:
Diagnosis not classifiable: December: 1,666, January: 1,618
Dislocation/fracture/joint injury/amputation: December: 397, January: 375
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Nothing abnormal detected: December: 250, January: 314
Contusion/abrasion: December: 209, January: 273
Respiratory conditions: December: 286, January: 243
Gastrointestinal conditions: December: 242, January: 225
Sprain/ligament injury: December: 201, January: 263
Laceration: December: 240, January: 190
Cardiac conditions: December: 186, January: 210
Head injury: December: 137, January: 131
Central nervous system conditions (exc strokes): December: 118, January: 123
Urological conditions (including cystitis): December: 124, January: 126
Infectious disease: December: 134, January: 114
ENT conditions: December: 74, January: 93
Poisoning (including overdose): December: 54, January: 92
Foreign body: December: 68, January: 63
Psychiatric conditions: December: 63, January: 75
Ophthalmological conditions: December: 57, January: 60
Local infection: December: 67, January: 38
Muscle/tendon injury: December: 51, January: 66
Other vascular conditions: December: 35, January: 47
Cerebro-vascular conditions: December: 37, January: 60
Gynaecological conditions: December: 30, January: 39
Burns and scalds: December: 35, January: 32
Soft tissue inflammation: December: 25, January: 29
Allergy (including anaphylaxis): December: 27, January: 16
Diabetes and other endocrinological conditions: December: 26, January: 20
Septicaemia: December: 23, January: 44
Dermatological conditions: December: 22, January: 17
Obstetric conditions: December: 11, January: 19
Bites/stings: December: 18, January: 16
Facio-maxillary conditions: December: 13, January: 9
Unknown Diagnosis: December: 18, January: 8
Nerve injury: December: 14, January: 11
Social problem (includes chronic alcoholism and homelessness): December: 8, January: 8
Haematological conditions: December: 5, January: 8
Vascular injury: December: 0, January: 4
Electric shock: December: 2, January: 0
Visceral injury: December: 0, January: 0
2 Comments
by mallyg1
Thursday, February 21 2013, 12:24PM
“To avoid going to the doctors with a minor ailment I tried to join the Minor ailments Scheme advertised at my GP and the chemist. It seems you have to be on benefits to use the scheme so even though I have worked all my life, paid NI contributions, tax etc, I can't use the scheme. What a con!!!!”
by Thanbi
Thursday, February 21 2013, 9:57AM
“When one can't get a GP appointment without having to wait 3 weeks, then What do you expect? If you could get a GP appointment in a reasonable time scale then people wouldn't feel they need to use A&E.
If the A&E doctors correctly sorted the problem, another A&E visit days later wouldn't be needed.
Lost count of the number of times I've been to the GP only to be told either (a) I should have gone straight to A&E when I did the injury (nearly 3 weeks ago) or (b) to go up to A&E as GP can't deal with injury.”