"Admissions"

Admissions into the hospital are black & white, either through A&E or a planned admission by your consultant. This doesn’t work very well, just clogs up the costly A&E service. An example would be when you see your consultant at the Beckenham Beacon and you need to be admitted, yet the consultant has to sent you to the PRU’s A&E and you have to sit there for hours on end with the rest of unfortunate people waiting to be assessed/treated. When in fact you have already been done,yet you still have to go through the same procedures with the A&E doctors, who don’t know your history, and eventually get the bed allocation which was already diagnosed 6 hours earlier by your consultant. Complete waste of resources.