The Egg Man wrote:RDR's 'being seen' is misleading. Everyone, almost by definition, is triaged on arrival.
The test, and what the 4 hours applies to, is disposal. The SG isn't unique in failing this. The old A&E and the Western had a habit of bumping patients to the Medical Assessment Unit (in the former Beatson Building) if it looked as if the 4 hours would be broken. Many a night I've spent there.
Yes I could have worded it better.
In theory the clock starts ticking from when the ambulance crew (if they come in by ambulance) register the patient, not the same as being triaged.
In fact, for ambulance crews in particular, at times, there is such a backlog, that they can be standing about for over a hour waiting to hand patients over.