We need to solve the overcrowding crisis in A&E. I may have the solution!
It came to me whilst reading my son " A squash and a squeeze" by Julia Donaldson (author of the Gruffalo)
A&E Squash and a Squeeze, adapted by Rob Galloway
A little old A&E, lived all by itself , with cubicles and chairs and a water jug on the shelf.
A wise old health secretary heard her grumble and grouse, “There’s not enough room in my A&E house.
Wise old health secretary, won’t you help me, please? My A&E house is a squash and a squeeze.”
“Take in your drunk and disorderly patients” said the wise old health secretary man
“Take in my drunk and disorderly patients? What a curious plan.”
Kept in A&E, instead of a cell, they vomited on the rug,
And flapped round the cubicle, knocking over the jug.
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The little old A&E cried, “I implore? It was poky before and it’s tiny for more.
My nose has a tickle and there’s no room to sneeze. My A&E house is a squash and a squeeze.”
And she said, “Wise old health secretary, won’t you help me, please? My A&E house is a squash and a squeeze.”
“Take in your awaiting medical bed patients,” said the wise old health secretary man.
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“Take in my awaiting medical bed patients? What a curious plan.”
Well, the awaiting medical bed patients pulled back the curtains and trod on the bed,
``then sat down to eat via her long term peg.
The little old A&E cried, “Glory be! It was tiny before and it’s titchy for more.
The drunks attacked the awaiting medical bed patients and the awaiting medical bed patients got fleas. My house is a squash and a squeeze.”
And she said, “Wise old health secretary, won’t you help me, please? My A&E house is a
squash and a squeeze.”
“Take in your awaiting mental health bed patients ” said the wise old health secretary man.
“Take in my awaiting mental health bed patients ? What a curious plan.”
So she took in awaiting mental health bed patients who kept pressing the alarms in cubicle ten
And raising everyone’s blood pressure again and again.
The little old A&E cried, “Stop, I implore! It was titchy before and it’s teeny for more.
Even the mental health patients in the cubicles agrees, My A&E house is a squash and a squeeze.”
And she said, “Wise old health secretary, won’t you help me, please? My house is a
squash and a squeeze.”
“Open an urgent care centre,” said the wise old health secretary man
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“Open an urgent care centre? What a curious plan.”
Well, the urgent care centre attracted the 111 referred worried well,
Whose long waits created an unpleasant waiting room smell
The little old A&E cried, “Heavens alive! It was teeny before and it’s weeny for more
I’m tearing my hair out, I’m down on my knees. My A&E house is a squash and a squeeze.”
And she said, “Wise old health secretary , won’t you help me, please? My house is a squash and a squeeze.”
“Take them all out,” said the wise old health secretary man.
“But then I’ll be back where I first began.”
So she persuade the police to remove the aggressive men
“That’s better – at last I can sneeze again.”
They opened up ward beds and she gave a jig
“My A&E house is beginning to feel pretty big.”
She persuaded the 111 patients to self discharge where safety would allow.
“Just look at my A&E house, it’s enormous now”.
“Thank you, old health secretary for saving the day, Our A&E is so big now, our staff might just stay.
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There’s no need to grumble and there’s no need to grouse. There’s plenty of room in my A&E house.”
And now she’s full of frolics and fiddle-de-dees. It isn’t a squash and it isn’t a squeeze.
Yes, she’s full of frolics and fiddle-de-dees.
It isn’t a squash or a squeeze.