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"My experience of health and social care is as an outpatient in my local neurological unit. I had an assessment to social care shortly before lockdown. I was told I was not eligible for support, which didn't surprise me. I made it clear that I wasn't prepared to adjust my...read more
"We do the care, we look after the residents that come into the place, but we’re under that much strain. We’re undervalued, you know. It's that ‘you get this and then I’m out.’ There's only so much money spent on personal care and it’s all you can do. It’s all...read more
"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
"This system isn't funded properly, it's not recognised. It's been a bit of an add-on to the actual NHS for a century. I don't think that it's actually been good enough. There have been lots of cuts. And I'm not happy that we always have to fight for things. "
"Improve support for carers in the unpaid care sector."
"If you're in trouble, and you're lucid enough to be able to know that you're in trouble, there should be somewhere you can actually go to get the help, before you get to a point where you or the crisis team have to step in and there's hospitalisation involved. I...read more
"The Covid pandemic, for some areas of the NHS – like my department – has actually made work life better. Because you actually have more time allocated for patients. Because you've got additional time for your decontamination between patients and things like that. And just have a second in between...read more
"I think care is about people. It's about understanding people. It's about accepting that we are all different and we all have different needs. My experience has been, especially through Covid, that the voluntary sector have really come to the fore in providing that care. I think the authorities have...read more
"My relative had a condition that was what they call multi-system, so it doesn't fit neatly into one speciality. And there was no joint approach. The health system didn't seem to serve her very well, because she would be referred to a consultant who would look at her from the...read more
"The prevention of illness is more effective than trying to cure the illness itself. I think that if we could invest more resources into preventing the illness and educating people of a younger age about potential hazards, that would allow the health service to be more efficient in treating the...read more
"I would like there to be a standard pathway that is a minimum level of care. And if you don't get it, there is somebody held accountable for it. Because I think the the other aspect of everything is no matter how many pathways you can have, if there's no accountability, and there's...read more