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"I wish the government would stop bloody putting money into stupid stuff and start actually giving some money to the NHS… do we need another bloody submarine?"
"They're not very keen on the idea of going into a care home. And I don't really see myself as being the caring type, going and doing it myself, in the foreseeable future. And I don't know what the prospects of care at home are for them. Unless they pay...read more
"It's worrying, obviously, the cost of it. Because more and more of us are living longer. And I was seeing on the telly recently, they were saying that if you have savings of more than £23,000 or £24,000 pounds, you are expected to look after yourself. Which is fine, but...read more
"Why are we building all these huge hospitals, when perhaps what we need is just more smaller, local hospitals?"
"When we went into lockdown, I thought, 'God, how is she going to get her shopping?' and this and that and the other. So I just went on a Facebook page for her area, just to see were there any health groups who were doing errands for older people and...read more
"The NHS might be funded. There are parts of it where you pay bit, but the majority is funded. Social Care is not. Some of it, a very small portion is funded. But most people when they're going to care homes, they fund themselves. My mother pays £4,300 per month...read more
"When it comes to social care, I'd only want to acknowledge the amazing work that so many charities, including churches and faith groups of all sorts, do."
"I worked in a hospital. I've stood on one side of a patient's bed arguing with the consultant or the doctor on the other side of the bed. ‘Whose money are we going to use? Do we use health? Or do we use social services?’ It's just not changed."
"I'd like to see more money available locally, so that GP surgeries can be suitably resourced. So that there aren’t long waiting lists, and so that interventions can happen sooner. So that we're not having to wait till it's an emergency."
"The NHS has to commission if they want to offer a service, I think they have to actually put in a bid in to offer that service. And then if it is not successful, for whatever reasons, it will go to the private company. And that's what happened to the...read more
"I think social care is crumbling. I think services are woeful. And I think it's not the fault of anybody trying to provide them. If there's no emphasis on the small intervention, and the fact that people need people, rather than face less support. I think that things will only...read more