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"Just getting a place in a care home is actually not easy. When you're making phone call after phone call, and people say ‘We don't have beds’ or ‘We can't give you any more care at home.’"
"I have an 87 year old mum who lives on her own. She hasn't got social care, but the family looks after her. There is surely some way. We've got agencies like Age Concern and various others. But it's all on the phone or on a website. And it's very...read more
"I've got a cousin who has cancer and she needs a hysterectomy. And she has waited 11 months so far. And I'm sorry, that's just unacceptable. It really is."
"Do we have the access to the social care we need? My experience is that it’s better in London than it than it was when I lived out in the sticks. And my parents who live in Yorkshire would say the same. That actually it's even worse outside of the...read more
"Unless they fight, people don't get the services that they are entitled to on a statutory basis. The services are there, and the framework is there. But you have to fight to get them."
"I'm a mum of a 17 year old young lady who has had mental health issues. She has really struggled and to be honest, we've had to get her the support that she needed through private support. She has a private psychotherapist because we couldn't get the care that she...read more
"I took my brother to hospital, and he broke his knee because of football. And I was basically his next of kin. I was talking on behalf of him because he was in real pain. He waited for so long, literally five or six hours, to be seen."
"I am going to need another operation soon. And I say soon, there's the potential that the eight month wait that I was told to expect before will now double. And therefore I am not expecting really to be living the next couple of years of my life. Well, not...read more
"A lot of people that tend to care for people with disabilites like myself are not very good at doing things like form filling. They tend to think, 'Oh, this guy he's up and about. He's quite independent.' And they forget about your other needs. And when you enquire, you don't get...read more
"Working in the homelessness sector, we have to fight to get treatments for people who are very, very ill. For mental health and addiction treatment, for general treatment or for social care. They just get missed out."
"My dad has been in and out of psychiatric hospital and that has been challenging, accessing appropriate care for him. Both of our parents are of an age now where they're not in care homes, but they need support. And getting that is challenging as well. I think the whole...read more
"In terms of more mundane interactions, I've almost given up going to the GP because it just takes so long to work."