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"There are stories of incredible amounts of waste or financial mismanagement, where you’re paying £50 for a light bulb or £30 for a box of Puracy, that you can get for 40 pence. There are issues of financial mismanagement or financial waste that, if addressed, could transform our NHS and...read more
"I've now got something that works for me social care wise, but they wanted to charge me £200 a week for a basic wash. "
"The support that I was previously accessing is no longer available because the funding has ended. I think it's really detrimental that lots of things seem to be on short budgets. It's one year or three year grants."
"The NHS and social care are facing two major challenges at the present. One is money, lack of money, mismanagement of money, or the wastage of money. Number two is the lack of manpower."
"I don't think it necessarily needs loads of extra money thrown at it. I think there's a lot of money wasted. There's huge inefficiencies everywhere."
"Why are we building all these huge hospitals, when perhaps what we need is just more smaller, local hospitals?"
"They have all this social prescribing, like the active hearts, where you go and you do your exercise and there are things like that. But they're not quite joined up yet. And you know, if you're overweight we can prescribe that you go to the nearest leisure centre and do...read more
"Improve support for carers in the unpaid care sector."
"I think sometimes some of this lack of communication, or good communication, can come out of people who have been working shift after shift back-to-back. And not every patient is a nice patient. People working on a Friday and Saturday have to put up with some of the most horrific...read more
"Our experience is there’s been less listening over the last 10 years, and it's a struggle to keep it going. But it's really worth it. Because in mental health, as in most other areas of health or social care, the people who are having the care, know best what that...read more
"If you're in trouble, and you're lucid enough to be able to know that you're in trouble, there should be somewhere you can actually go to get the help, before you get to a point where you or the crisis team have to step in and there's hospitalisation involved. I...read more
"But there's a more holistic approach to managing mental health and physical problems. When I was 21, I had a disc removed in my back because at that time, that was what they did, if you had a faulty disc. I was actually registered disabled for about three or four...read more