Quote Originally Posted by mr brightside View Post
That needs looking at by a musculoskeletal specialist of some sort. If my ankle looked like that i'd go to a private Chiropractor or a Podiatrist, one way or another you don't want to be weight bearing unnecessarily until you have a diagnosis. A&E will just want you back out of the door asap, and don't trust the opinion of a GP. If you want to go NHS you need a referral from your GP to see a Musculoskeletal Consultant; they will pass you on to Radiology and Physiotherapy. The choose and book service has got me in within a month in the past, try to get into a private hospital if you can- it's faster. Obtain a copy of the Radiologist's report, you must ask for this as they won't give you it automatically.

Going on my personal experience i'd say you're going to have to allow about 6 months to see the back of this, so you've got plenty of time to do it right, and you normally only get one shot at doing it right with an injury that looks as angry as that. Misdiagnosis and that biggest of mistakes 'running through it' are currently your biggest concerns.
It is meant to be standard NHS practice that acute injuries like this, whether or not an X-ray is felt to show anything, are seen at the next day's Fracture Clinic at the latest. Ideally this would have been organised via the A+E department. The problem is starting this system in motion, having missed one of the steps. Don't take no for an answer, and if need be turn up at A+E in the morning, before they are too busy, with a chance of being seen in one of the day's Fracture clinics, or indeed by an Orthopod in the A+E.