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"With regards to continuing health care assessments, I can only describe ours as having been traumatic. The buck passing between social services and health, the lack of accountability. These are all things that have seriously needed addressing for decades and it still hasn't happened. "
"If you can't advocate for yourself, you don't get adequate health care. And that's as brief as I can put it."
"Hospitals should know better, we are constantly required to call for an appointment – they should be able to recognise that we are Deaf and offer alternatives, text numbers or even Centre of Sign Sight Sound’s contact details. Not simply rely on us phoning."
"There's a fear around registering with a GP. Maybe that's something we should want to change. Something guaranteeing that data stored by your surgery or the NHS doesn't get shared with the Home Office."
"My mother had cataracts. She was at the point where she couldn't really see. And she was put on a year long waiting list. So she had to pay for that service in the end."
"People with dementia that need care can't stay in their own home anymore. They've had to go to care homes. But we haven't got a care home and we're never gonna get a care home. Because there's not enough funds and the council are not going to fund care home...read more
"I had my father in law waiting for a hip operation. These days it's about 18 months. And just before his operation, he had the pre op check. And they found that he had some condition where his blood doesn't clot. And they couldn't work out what to do. So...read more
"A friend of mine was in hospital for five months, because they couldn't find anywhere she could be. She had no money to pay for [care] herself."
"I used to work on a medical intervention ward, which was mainly elderly people who’ve had falls and were waiting to go for rehab or get some social care support. And they, essentially, were bed blocking. Because there weren’t the facilities available."
"My daughter had some mental health problems a year ago. And it's very, very difficult to access mental health care in any meaningful way whatsoever. She was actually quite acute at that point and got nothing from the health service."
"The most important thing is about everyone having equal access. There's too much variation in access to mental health services, to specialist services. It shouldn't matter where you live, or what your postcode is."
"I thought I was having chest pains. The GP, in the same day, referred me to hospital to have my heart checked. And lo and behold, there’s no spaces for the MRI free. So I have to go all the way across Scotland. This was just before the second lockdown,...read more