What is a foot attack, and what to do if you have one?

Okay, so the foot attack is a bit like a heart attack, but obviously affecting your feet and obviously not your heart. But it's something that seriously affects your feet. It can be something very serious. It can be something that can progress very rapidly. So things like the red hot swollen foot, things like any discharge or exudate coming out of the foot, anything that you know as I said before when you're doing your foot check you know anything that is not normal for you that looks like it's a problem for the feet, anything that is causing you pain or discomfort or any sort of deformity in the feet and this is something that you know we want people to treat as seriously as a heart attack so obviously you know for somebody who's having a heart attack you dial 999 when you wouldn't potentially do that with a foot attack but you would probably want to have an urgent referral or an urgent review with your GP or an urgent visit to your podiatrist either in community through an urgent through an emergency clinic or if you see people in the hospital as an as an emergency and if it's out of hours, weekend, evening, overnight, bank holidays, that you would go to A&E or your walk-in centre or your emergency practitioner to again make sure that you have urgent treatment for something that is potentially very serious.