It's like any A&E in any city in the UK. If you were to paint a portrait of a stereotypical waiting room- let's call it a Friday night one- you'd need a significant number of people who've drunk too much and fallen over, or got into fights, or just collapsed into unconsciousness from the sheer...
I don't know why I couldn't remember that. Been there a few times (for work). I can find my way there, I just couldn't remember where it IS. Which makes perfect sense.
Takes them, what, a couple of minutes from East Brighton Park to the RSCH, but when every second counts...
The RSCH is generally a pretty miserable place to be, but then again most hospitals, especially old ones, usually are.
If you want REALLY depressing, try the General up on Elm Grove. It's like being inside a submarine.
The bit about the trauma centre is already in place. People who were hanging by a thread following car accidents and so on used to be routinely airlifted or blue lighted to St Georges in Tooting, or Kings College Hospital (in another ropey part of London- Brixton or Streatham I think). Now they...