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"The support that I was previously accessing is no longer available because the funding has ended. I think it's really detrimental that lots of things seem to be on short budgets. It's one year or three year grants."
"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
"I worked in a hospital. I've stood on one side of a patient's bed arguing with the consultant or the doctor on the other side of the bed. ‘Whose money are we going to use? Do we use health? Or do we use social services?’ It's just not changed."
"I had a lady that came in and I said to her, you know, you can go and buy some paracetamol over the counter. No, she made me write out a prescription for paracetamol. And I can't imagine, I think for me to write that prescription would have cost the...read more
"But there's a more holistic approach to managing mental health and physical problems. When I was 21, I had a disc removed in my back because at that time, that was what they did, if you had a faulty disc. I was actually registered disabled for about three or four...read more
"Why are we building all these huge hospitals, when perhaps what we need is just more smaller, local hospitals?"
"They should employ more people. The NHS would be better."