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"The NHS is an absolutely amazing organization. We don't know how lucky we are. And that these are, you know, minor gripes in some respects... I think that when it comes to specific interventions needed under crisis, they're just amazing and perpetually amazing in the hardest of circumstances as well."
"I was diagnosed as autistic a year and a half ago, because I’d had lots of mental health crises over the years. And in accessing quite major crisis counselling as a mum with a very tiny baby, they said ‘How have you ever been diagnosed like this?’ And I'd been...read more
"The people are the most important asset in the NHS. It’s clear they are woefully underfunded, underpaid and overworked. If we lose the people, we lose the system. "
"In A&E a doctor spoke to me and I told him all of my history. And this was not long after I had my kidney removed. And he went to speak to his senior, and this senior doctor turned around and said: 'You can't lose a kidney because of endometriosis.' So I requested that...read more
"Maybe there's a charity out there that could help me, or something that I haven't looked into. But if I haven't, it's because I didn't know about it. It was something else for me to look into and find out about myself rather than me saying ‘I need help’ and...read more
"There needs to be a conversation about how we use [the] proliferation of information on the internet. Because it can increase people's anxiety about their health issues. What do we do with all this information? It can be really confusing [and] really stressful. And then [you] go to the doctor who patronises...read more
