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"What is painfully obvious to me is that if you have financial resources and, like myself, a good number of siblings, you are far more able to support someone in your own family who is in need of significant help than someone who has still to go to work or...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
"We have a neighbour that comes in and asks us if we want anything down from the shop, stuff like that. And you do find a lot of people are a lot more helpful now, considering coronavirus. We have carers as well, and they take us round in the car and help us to get our shopping and everything."
"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."
"It often feels like once you have support, it's a relief. And good support is hard to come by. Because there aren't enough people in this system to actually work with people. And give them the time that they need. "
"There's no care there at all, from the people that own the company. It's all about this being a market for making a shedload of money. And that is what it's about. Thankfully, the people that are actually there right at the bottom of the chain, the carers... I don't...read more
"It's this idea of the postcode lottery...when my son was born and we started with the services here, it's actually limited us. We will not move because he's got a place in the community here. He's known and he's getting services. If we move five miles down the road, it's very different. This...read more
"But there's a more holistic approach to managing mental health and physical problems. When I was 21, I had a disc removed in my back because at that time, that was what they did, if you had a faulty disc. I was actually registered disabled for about three or four...read more
"Improve support for carers in the unpaid care sector."
"We need more people on the ground, less people up the top on great big wages that they don't need. Pay the people down the bottom, get more people involved."
"We're supposed to give compassion, love, dignity and respect. And we give those things. But I think it's very limited in many ways...that the care we’re supposed to give, we’re supposed to support patients, even out in the community as they go out, but we are not able to accommodate...read more
"It's not necessarily the funding, it's the management behind the funding. It’s just bad management. My parents both work for the NHS. The amount of paperwork and bureaucracy they have to put in place is just overwhelming. They're constantly being assessed like kids in school."