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"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
"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
"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?"
"Since the 1990s, the number of people going into training has been cut, nurses numbers have been cut, medical students numbers have been cut. And we have shortages right across the board. In every specialty from anaesthetists to everything. There's a shortage of people with the skills we need right...read more
"If at the base provision of a service you pay the lowest available rates, you're willing to underpay people, you start off on the wrong footing from the get-go. The whole pyramid of care and health is based upon the premise that people like ourselves are altruistic in nature and...read more
"It's not necessarily the funding, it's the management behind the funding. It’s just bad management. My parents both work for the NHS. The amount of paperwork and bureaucracy they have to put in place is just overwhelming. They're constantly being assessed like kids in school."
"They should employ more people. The NHS would be better."
"We need to look after nurses and doctors or it's going to get massively worse."
"We need more staff, maybe more social care staff or social workers, because then the social care people would be able to get involved. But most bed workloads are so huge that, you know, people slip through the net."
"We need more people on the ground, less people up the top on great big wages that they don't need. Pay the people down the bottom, get more people involved."
"We do have a good healthcare system. The NHS is very good at providing healthcare, compared to a lot of other countries. However, looking at the future, are we going to have the right workforce to continue providing the care that we are providing now?"