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"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
"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 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."
"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
"Put the patient first and communicate with the family. Listen to the patient and don't talk over them."
"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."
"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
"We never see our GP. We need regular proactive home visits for both my parents; it should be part of the GP contract to provide this. Housebound and disabled patients are ignored. Chiropody and physio is non-existent and so we have to pay for this privately. We can afford this,...read more
"My GP is a very person-centred person and considers all her patients to be people NOT patients. Her caring attitude invites you to talk more about any issues that may be affecting you. My MS nurse has this attitude as well, though is pushed for time within the allotted interview...read more
"Localised services work better when possible. We have a new community health centre and it is supposed to have the facilities for video conferencing. Seeing consultants there instead of having to travel all the way to the hospitals, which are all a good hour away."
"I had occasion recently to phone my GP. I received a return call where it was obvious that the GP had made a decision about my illness prior to calling me. From “Hello” to “Goodbye “ was less than 90 seconds. During this time I was told to stop taking...read more