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"We have a family friend who's been suffering with cancer for quite a long time. And their treatment’s been put on the back burner for months now because they have to prioritise coronavirus patients. Obviously you understand, but it's a really difficult thing when you're looking at somebody who's 55,...read more
"A number of folks that I know who work within the NHS talk about how they're regularly understaffed. And, to me, that's an issue of either the working conditions or the level of pay. "
"From my experience, and from the experience of some of my friends with elderly relatives, the big thing that everyone says is that they wish they knew what was on offer and what paths they should go down."
"It's been 20 years going round in circles. You go to a doctor's and say, 'Oh, you know, this is happening to me.' [And they say] 'I'm going to increase the tablets.' And it's like: I'm already on ridiculous amounts of morphine. I don't want to go any further. "
"About the free NHS... I really believe the country now needs quite a serious conversation about what that actually means. It's not free, we all pay for it. And, clearly, we need to pay more. "
"I'm a student nurse, so I'm between various boards at the moment. But they're always understaffed. There's not been a ward I've been on that's not been understaffed at times. And it does impact patient care. If you don't have enough staff, you don't have enough people to go around...read more
"They declared that my hip wasn't bad enough to have an operation. So I decided, because it was affecting my quality of life so much, to pay to go privately. And when that was operated on, the consultant told me that the hip was actually in really poor shape and and was certainly ready to be...read more
"Certainly, supporting both of my parents for a while last year, [they] were receiving daily visits from a mental health sort of home visit team... I was really impressed with the amount of care and support they got. But also the amount of communication with me and my sister as the...read more