What is the situation of urgent care establishments in the UK? Places you can go for non life threatening but life stopping events, like say a broken leg?
It all goes through A&E, which unfortunately is meant for both the life threatening situations and urgent but not leathal ones yet. You have to go in, register and sit and wait - if it is "just" a broken leg yes you might wait a few hours before being seen.
There's a trend in the US to have urgent care facilities. For example, in my system if I have a problem I call (24/7) and they route me either to urgent care or the ER.
During my visit to urgent care (so early in the days of COVID that there was sign saying only people who had just flew in from Wuhan could be tested), I was seen immediately, the doctor stopped while seeing me, said "the person in the next room is having a heart attack and I have to send him to the ER immediately- I'll be back".
