"Urgent referral"

My husband attended A/E at 0830 in the morning having had a period of dysphasia (being unable to speak) which has resolved its self.As I couldn't get through to theGP we decided to attend A/E ASAP .On arrival we were met by a lovely receptionist who advised us to see and discuss what had happened with the A/E Gp As my husband had a history of chronic atrial fibrillation we were informed by the gp he had probably had a TIA (trans ishaemic attack) and should be seen by the stroke team and needed to be referred urgently ......We were then informed by the A/E GP that this referral had to be done via our GP so we then had to trudge all the way back to the GP to get a referral. I am at a loss as to why this referral could not have been done whilst we were in A/E.I did ask could the referral be done via A/E but was told no by the A/E GP.