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"If I could change one thing? As we are all aware, most of our shifts are 12 hour shifts. A happy worker produces good results. As healthcare people, I believe we really need salary increments. What we are getting is not really good, to be honest, considering what we went through...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

"I didn’t want to be really difficult. I'm quite a jovial person but I don't like to do the whole ‘angry Black woman’ thing. Because I think sometimes when you're not lucky and you try to voice your opinion, they feel like you are - you know Black women, we’re...read more

"I had a cousin who had Down's syndrome. And she was about 10 years older than me. And when my aunt died in the mid 90s, she had essentially scrimped and saved all her life to ensure that Ruth would be all right after she went. And Ruth was able to live at...read more

"We're not being believed in healthcare. Turning up at A&E and being told that your pain can't be that bad, that you're not that unwell, made to feel like you're going mad yourself. And especially when you've got a mental health condition, you do start to really check in with yourself...read more

"We see that in the mental health system, it’s a similar situation. It isn't when somebody is really very acutely, mentally ill. The experience of the provision of care at that point is often extremely good. But as you drop down from that really acute crisis point into slightly less...read more

"A friend of mine a bit younger than me, her husband has Parkinson's which has deteriorated quite badly recently. He has been in hospital. He's currently in a nursing home but is due to return home. That house she's in, that house is unsuitable. She’s falling a lot. She's not...read more

"People think I’ll see my support worker, and that will be fine. That kind of mentality is not what living with a learning disability is today or even what autism does. It’s much more independent than it was even 10 years ago. People still think that people with learning disabilities...read more