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"Where somebody is really very acutely mentally ill, the provision of that care at that point is often extremely good. But as you drop down from that, [from] really acute crisis point into slightly less acute needs, [care is less] comprehensive or consistent."
"The secondary care is awful. The hospital that I ended up in... the nursing staff [were] abysmal. And I was in there for two weeks, had a catheter in for two weeks and got catheter care about four times. And that was only when one particular nurse was on. I ended up...read more
"He got sent home to us without any conversations between us and the hospital. And without any care package being put in place for him. And that was just so very, very difficult to sort out at short notice, to get people in. And it really needed us, in the end, for...read more
"[I've] a couple of family members with dementia. And you know there's something wrong with your relative. And it was so hard to get the help. And I just felt like they weren't...nobody was listening to me. And it was getting dangerous. My uncle was wandering. He was stood in the middle of a...read more
"Before I was diagnosed with my cancer, I was admitted as an emergency... I was treated as a drunk. And everybody said to me, 'Oh, do you drink?' I kept saying 'No, I don't drink.' And then one of the registrar's said to me. 'Are you sure you haven't got a bottle of sherry...read more
"From my personal experience, just a brush with mental health issues for both me and my family members, [there] seems to be a lack of [the] personal touch at the beginning. With the first contact, like, it's so hard to grab people that are having mental health problems because they...read more
"They found a growth. He had to have a scan and they found this growth and they dismissed it... I had a friend who worked in the hospital... [the] senior night nurse came along, saw his notes, saw this tumor on his spine and called the consultant. Within an hour, he was...read more
"I went through different care homes...they were treated like the lowest of the low. It depends on who's on shift. If you've got a nice care assistant or a nice nurse or a nice manager and they happen to be in, then things are okay. But some people were leaving...read more
"I've had postnatal depression as well. And especially when I had it with the twins, it took me a year to actually get some help. And to get some medication for it. Because my GP wasn't listening to me and neither was my home visitor."
"I had a car accident, about 20 years ago, which really damaged my spine. And I got support from my GP. But after about three years of struggling, his answer was to give up work and go on disability... I didn't get offered any rehab
I felt like I was just...read more
"CAMHS have actually made life much more difficult for us
They actually have aggravated every thing that [they] were supposed to help with. Their services are so poor."
"I remember in hospital on my medical notes [it said] this patient needs help to do basic needs...[But] the nurses who were looking after me, when I'd ask them for certain things they would look at me like 'Well, just get up and do it.' I mean, one got to the...read more