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"They're not very keen on the idea of going into a care home. And I don't really see myself as being the caring type, going and doing it myself, in the foreseeable future. And I don't know what the prospects of care at home are for them. Unless they pay...read more
"We need to look after nurses and doctors or it's going to get massively worse."
"I'd like to see more money available locally, so that GP surgeries can be suitably resourced. So that there aren’t long waiting lists, and so that interventions can happen sooner. So that we're not having to wait till it's an emergency."
"The prevention of illness is more effective than trying to cure the illness itself. I think that if we could invest more resources into preventing the illness and educating people of a younger age about potential hazards, that would allow the health service to be more efficient in treating the...read more
"We've had 32 or 34 different carers come from the same agency. And, no, there's no liaising. There's no communication... it's all over the place. "
"When you get people who go above and beyond patient care, the way they talk to you is respectable...It really does highlight when there's other times where people are less appropriate when they talk to you about certain things."
"I was bed bound for three days. I had drains in. I wasn't allowed to sit up, get out of bed or anything. She left my tea, my trolley, at the side of my bed, put my knife and fork on my chest and just walked off and left me."
"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."
"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] 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."
"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."
"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