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"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 have had mental health challenges, and still do every now and again. While my GP has been very compassionate, and has supplied the practical medication, I've never ever thought of accessing any sort of therapy on the NHS. I've done that privately. I'm fortunate to be in a position...read more
"I've worked in various places for a long time, but spent twenty-five years in mental health. And over that time, some things have gotten a lot better. But the funding for the service has been cut so dramatically, that now there are people who are, in my opinion, over medicated...read more
"I've now got something that works for me social care wise, but they wanted to charge me £200 a week for a basic wash. "
"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."
"I don't think it necessarily needs loads of extra money thrown at it. I think there's a lot of money wasted. There's huge inefficiencies everywhere."
"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
"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."
"We're dealing with significant levels of mental health issues amongst young people. And there is without any shadow of doubt, nothing like enough to go around. There's no question about that."
"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."