Last week I fell off a ladder and hurt my ankle. Today, as my wife was taking the MIL to the hospital for an appointment, I decided to bite the bullet and go to A&E as it wasn’t getting any better.

I booked in to A&E at 10.40 and was out and on my way home by 12.00. The MIL was out at around the same time as me.

Given all the bad press the NHS gets, I thought it worth mentioning a good experience. I was seen within ten minutes of signing in, sent for an X ray and then treated all in just over an hour.

I’m sure that if I’d gone down this evening things would have been different but this morning they were very efficient and getting through patients at a decent rate of knots.