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"They found a growth. He had to have a scan and they found this growth and they dismissed it... I had a friend who worked in the hospital... [the] senior night nurse came along, saw his notes, saw this tumor on his spine and called the consultant. Within an hour, he was...read more
"From my personal experience, just a brush with mental health issues for both me and my family members, [there] seems to be a lack of [the] personal touch at the beginning. With the first contact, like, it's so hard to grab people that are having mental health problems because they...read more
"The home that I work in is a private care home. So I only have first-hand experience of that. But, for me, it's the quality and the amount of care that's received in private care homes, where people are paying probably an average of about £1,500 per week to stay there. Versus what they're actually getting,...read more
"The number of people who are just absolutely desperate for a chat or something just outside of their room...some kind of support while they're in there. Extra activities or just someone to go around and talk to people. I find that, especially with elderly people, they're much more likely to get a...read more
"I think what needs addressing is home care in our community. I think it's absolutely shocking... it's three or four visits of 10 to 15 minutes a time. And it's not enough, it's not practical."
"[When] my mother-in-law was diagnosed with cancer, she was expected to go with the treatment. Because she refused we were just kind of brushed off."
"When I first had my breakdown, I went to my GPs. The first GP I saw was very dismissive of me and was like, 'Look, I'll sign you off for two weeks. But everybody has stress problems...it looks like you're gonna have to really think about whether you should be working there.' "
"When I started, when I was a nursing assistant doing my training, I could spend an hour one to one with my patients on the ward. And now you'd be lucky to have 10 minutes with somebody."
"He got sent home to us without any conversations between us and the hospital. And without any care package being put in place for him. And that was just so very, very difficult to sort out at short notice, to get people in. And it really needed us, in the end, for...read more
"We should work out a way for monitoring what’s going on with coronavirus. And when Black people start dying in larger numbers than any other group, and though the NHS then starts falling over backwards to make assessments about who and what the numbers were, we still don't know why....read more
"Before I was diagnosed with my cancer, I was admitted as an emergency... I was treated as a drunk. And everybody said to me, 'Oh, do you drink?' I kept saying 'No, I don't drink.' And then one of the registrar's said to me. 'Are you sure you haven't got a bottle of sherry...read more