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Rooting solutions in the experiences people face every day is the only way to fix the problem, writes Francis Elliott….read more
"Mental health care and hospitals are disgustingly diabolical and bear no resemblance to care and hospitals in other areas. Even the staff would benefit from lessons by the Victorians, who set up mental health care in the 1860s from the prison systems. They certainly had a better understanding of a...read more
"We need local hospitals for minor injuries and 'patching up' in order to alleviate the waiting times and intake into A&E. A mini-ambulance could travel every hour to the main hospital, if necessary, to transfer people for more specialised treatment."
"I think we need to pay for health and social care together. A part of our taxes needs to go directly to this. I would support a raising of taxes for this, as long as it were to be ring-fenced."
"The NHS should move to a model of providing free high quality emergency and urgent care, with the majority of elective care provdied by the private sector, funded by insurance and business, as in most other developed nations."
"Put the patient first and communicate with the family. Listen to the patient and don't talk over them."
"There is a complete failure to understand the inexorable, and inevitably increased, demand that always outstrips supply. We constantly fail to train the workforce we know we will need in the future. And, instead, immorally rely on important workers from outside the UK. The concept of providing free care for...read more
"The emergency service is excellent. Urgent care, such as cancer treatment, is also good. The NHS is highly innovative. For example, 80% of all surgery is now on a daycase basis and the length of a hospital stay has reduced by over 50% in ten years. Most advances are driven...read more
"Social care and health should be a service which is in the community, not in one office. Social workers should have a drop-in session every week in GP surgeries and dentists. Housing should also be in the community, as they all work together. They should all be made accountable to...read more
"Also a very big thing: being believed by GPs... My kid's bones were 79% cancer and I was still being told 'Not to worry its just a virus'. Same with Long Covid ... nearly got myself sectioned for delusional body sensations that we all now know is Long Covid."
"I rarely visit the doctor as I believe most of my health needs are in my own hands. So I only contact my doctor about a serious or long lasting problem. It is unacceptable to wait over an hour for the surgery to answer my call for an appointment."