A&E Used Like a Gp Surgery ; Two Streets Account for 100 Visits [Edition 3]
Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › January 19, 2010
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PEOPLE are using North Staffordshire's under-pressure accident unit as a makeshift GP surgery - because they can't get appointments to see their own doctor.
New figures show residents from the three postcode areas nearest the Hartshill centre account for half of the 90,000 patients treated there annually.See the full content of this document
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A&E Used Like a Gp Surgery ; Two Streets Account for 100 Visits [Edition 3]
The statistics show emergency teams treated 100 people last year from the same 20 households in two streets.
The investigation wa...See the full content of this document
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