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"Working in the NHS, I work at a crisis team at the moment. It's incredibly busy and very variable. I feel frustrated at times. I can't do the things I'd really love to do. They just don't have the resources."
"I wish the government would stop bloody putting money into stupid stuff and start actually giving some money to the NHS… do we need another bloody submarine?"
"There are people in the NHS who are wasting money on things that shouldn't be. That's the same in any organisation, but you seem to get a lot of bad eggs, and people not doing their jobs efficiently at all levels. "
"I was actually told this by my senior manager. It is cheaper to provide emergency care for someone who is having mental health crisis than to provide support for their early onset or even just for the social aspect of their life."
"The care [my mother’s] got now, she’s got to sell their home to pay for. Her and my dad worked all their lives. They'll have it taken away just to pay for her care."
"I would quite happily pay an extra £20-30 in National Insurance contributions a year if it was going into the NHS. And if you ask the majority of people, they would quite happily pay that extra £20-30 a year. "
"The NHS might be funded. There are parts of it where you pay bit, but the majority is funded. Social Care is not. Some of it, a very small portion is funded. But most people when they're going to care homes, they fund themselves. My mother pays £4,300 per month...read more
"It's about caring. And it turns a lot of things on its head. But until society's happier to spend some of their hard earned money through taxes to make the services work for us. It's us today, but it could be them tomorrow. "
"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."
"We'd already gone to CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services). We'd had a really thorough assessment, but the follow-through was awful. They decided he didn't need to see a psychiatrist. You know, there's just lots of things that he did kind of need, but he wasn't getting. I think...read more
"We need to understand that the amount of social care required isn't going to decrease. Because the healthcare is so much better, people are living longer. So more people are going to need the provision of social care for more years than they do at the moment. Some are reaching...read more
"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