[Madhatter]

They won't cope, or maybe they will, as most won't bother to go. The thought of traveling then waiting puts many off getting attention thats needed.

One of the best things we had here and will lose when nuneaton and coventry hospitals do the same as these two is the out of hours doctor facility. It's a non emergency doctor for people in pain with things that could possibly be serious. for example, my left foot and leg went numb, I phoned this doctor facility atached to A&E for advice what to do, do I go A&E or do I go to my doc. They were concerned and asked me to go over so they could check it wasn't serious. Turned out ity was a trapped nerve and i went home, no A&E staff time wasted and I was in and out in 15 mins.
This is being scraped which I think is a daft idea, I think every hospital should have one.