I think it’s not acceptable people show up at an A and E service when it’s not an emergency or an accident and to use it as a way to get an immediate X Ray result is exactly why it’s fucked
One bloke was shouting he’d left his smokes at home and was asking the staff if they had one
There were no seats and some woman was lying across 3. She told me to fuck if as she had been there for 10 hours and needed a kip
My recent encounter with A and E shows the actual issue is at least half the people should just be sent home with a box of paracetamol
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/03/numbers-leaving-ae-without-treatment-triples-in-six-years