"Time waiting in the accident and emergency area"

Anything else?

I had a accident on 25/8/13, we rang for an ambulance and was informed it would be a 45 mins wait, instead of blleding to death we made our own way to ESH When I arrived at ESH the waiting room was not overly packed, I came in with a head injury pouring with blood so I should at least had a tiny bit of priority. But instead of that I witnessed that the following people were being treated before I was actually seen by the assesement nurse, for the following aliments 1) a in grown toe nail 2) a sore foot 3) bruised ribs as this person was boasting in the waiting area he had been in a fight and won it too The 2 women on arrival were not medically trained or made any attepmt to priortise the injuries as they came in, instead of that they simply took your name, dob etc and pushed this through a hatch where the assesment nurse then looked at still not being priortised for urgency of injury.......I understand these women actually work in the medical records dept......with no medical training I waited in the waiting area for three and a half hours and was then treated by the nurses which I have no problem at all with my biggest gripe is 1) having to wait such a long time considering what injury I had whilst others with aliments which they could have gone to see their gp with while I was losing blood, quite frankly if I wasnt feeling so ill I would have gone home hours before the long wait ESH sort out the reception staff and put in place medically trained people it really was a disgrace