I've just gone to the ED here twice in the past week. The first time I went in, we were put in waiting and they triaged 2 other patients before us. The ED waiting room here has a different triage and section for children and adults, so 2 other children came in one with a broken foot and one with a sore arm who was jumping off the seats. They both went in before Matilda and we didn't mind too much except Matilda was vomitting and had diarrhoea in the waiting room and I was covered in vomit and poo and people were all around us... after 90 minutes we got in and were admitted pretty quickly and on the ward soon thereafter.

The second time we presented, while they were doing her obs in the waiting room, the nurse grabbed her and put her in a wheelchair and raced her off to resus. The team knew we were coming becuase I had phoned the ward ahead and the paediatrician warned ED that we were on our way in. When we arrived, she wasn't in a good way at all and I think we waited 1 minute? by the time we arrived at resus the paediatrician was waiting for us with 3 nurses.

We had to go to adult resus because the children's was taken... but it was amazing, without the quick thinking on the paediatrician's behalf on the phone things wouldn't have gone so well for us.

We are home now... thankfully