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"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."
"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 think sometimes some of this lack of communication, or good communication, can come out of people who have been working shift after shift back-to-back. And not every patient is a nice patient. People working on a Friday and Saturday have to put up with some of the most horrific...read more
"Our experience is there’s been less listening over the last 10 years, and it's a struggle to keep it going. But it's really worth it. Because in mental health, as in most other areas of health or social care, the people who are having the care, know best what that...read more
"If you're in trouble, and you're lucid enough to be able to know that you're in trouble, there should be somewhere you can actually go to get the help, before you get to a point where you or the crisis team have to step in and there's hospitalisation involved. I...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
"I think care is about people. It's about understanding people. It's about accepting that we are all different and we all have different needs. My experience has been, especially through Covid, that the voluntary sector have really come to the fore in providing that care. I think the authorities have...read more
"My relative had a condition that was what they call multi-system, so it doesn't fit neatly into one speciality. And there was no joint approach. The health system didn't seem to serve her very well, because she would be referred to a consultant who would look at her from the...read more
"Staff teams that I work with can be very quick to judge families’ experiences of caring for people that they're supporting. And part of my job is getting people to think about the perspective of the person they're working with. But often if they've had lots of support from their...read more
"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