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"Sometimes I will read in a magazine by a medical journalist, how carers must think of [their] own health and have a break. What a joke."
"The NHS is a great institution, but it could better serve the BAME community if they took the time to listen to us."
"I know lots of people who gave birth around a similar time to me, and who came out of it feeling completely differently...disempowered. And they just had to go through certain things. Which is just really sad because I came out, to be honest, after I gave birth to my daughter...read more
"My son went away to residential college for three years, which we had to battle tremendously hard to get for him. And I think, you know, what somebody else said about obstacles being put in your way... that was my experience at that stage. It was 'Well, nobody gets residential...read more
"Social care wise, it's working for me at the moment. But they just want to reduce my package and expect me to pay through the nose for it. And so that's driving me insane."
"If at the base provision of a service you pay the lowest available rates, you're willing to underpay people, you start off on the wrong footing from the get-go. The whole pyramid of care and health is based upon the premise that people like ourselves are altruistic in nature and...read more
"With regards to continuing health care assessments, I can only describe ours as having been traumatic. The buck passing between social services and health, the lack of accountability. These are all things that have seriously needed addressing for decades and it still hasn't happened. "
"I just feel there's a massive almost naivety or ignorance when it comes to understanding what someone's going through, if you're not going through it yourself. And in conditions where it's chronic, or long term or permanent, people tend to lose interest after a week or two."
"I've got a friend whose daughter has anorexia and – this was before the pandemic – she cannot get an appointment with CAMHS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services), because they're underfunded. So that they don't have the ability to get in and have those really important conversations."
"I think a lot of people can take [the NHS] for granted because it's free. On our ward, we have a lot of rude patients that are just so demanding. And they don't realise how much it does cost the NHS for a detox or for a drain or anything like that."
"BAME communities are more likely to have diabetes and high blood pressure... All the options for being dual heritage are always mixed with white and never anything else. That makes me feel a bit marginalised, because even in terms of statistics I’m not truly counted, I’m only counted as ‘other’,...read more
"I've got a cousin who has cancer and she needs a hysterectomy. And she has waited 11 months so far. And I'm sorry, that's just unacceptable. It really is."