PATIENTS facing six-hour hospital wait for A&E treatment in Kirklees:

HuddersFax_resident: “And the ConDems think this is so acceptable they want to remove targets altogether. This will then effectively hide how much people are really suffering because of their NHS cuts and proposed 80% divide to the GPs – can the remaining 20% hospital budget support things like A&E, wages, consultants, building maintenance? The simple answer is, not a chance. Everyone knows it but the ConDems will continue with their cuts, safe in the knowledge that private health care is part of their salary and they’ll never use the NHS.”

anneb: “Well, Mr Napier (Kirklees NHS chairman) it’s been fun has it? Try saying that to the poor patients having to endure six hours waiting in A&E.

Let’s hope no-one you know or love finds themselves in that position.’’

RSM: “If A&Es weren’t filled with people suffering from self-inflicted damage due to over-indulging in their chosen recreational substances there may actually be time for those that have real injuries and problems.

“A&E means accident and emergency, not Anything and Everything. Sorry if this seems unsympathetic, but put bluntly you don’t die of a broken toe. Yes it’s painful, yes it’s boring to wait, but generally you’re waiting because someone needs help before you do.”

tromboneblower: “I must have always been lucky. My visits, either for myself or my boys when they were younger have always been reasonable and extremely courteous and friendly.

“There wouldn’t be such long waits in A&E if people thought a bit more carefully about what counts as an ‘emergency’.

flow: “I had a terrible experience last summer when I had to take my son to A&E with a broken arm – the bone was literally sticking out sideways – and he was not seen by a doctor and had no pain relief for four hours.

We waited as people in front of us were seen and sent home – a girl with tummy ache whose mum was worried, a toddler who was a bit clammy but up past his bedtime and hyperactive with fizzy drinks, a young woman who had cut her finger and a girl who had a GCSE the next morning and was ‘worried’ about a pimple (yes, pimple – she showed us all).

“I consider myself a generally kind and understanding person. Those people all needed reassurance and probably a hug. But they did not need A&E. And if they had had somewhere else to go, my son would have been spared hours of great pain and stress.”