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"A number of folks that I know who work within the NHS talk about how they're regularly understaffed. And, to me, that's an issue of either the working conditions or the level of pay. "
"Staff within both the care and the health systems are underpaid, understaffed, under recognised and never given the appropriate time. My daughter, who's a podiatrist, says that they've done better out of Covid because they have to clean between each of their appointments. This has given her enough time to...read more
"Bits are being privatised without us knowing, and it’s reducing the quality of care."
"One of the things that worries me about health and social care is how it's owned. It seems to me there are fewer care homes that are owned by the old sort of owner occupier, who would look after them. A lot of them are pretty big companies that own...read more
"The idea that you can have access to private healthcare as a kind of a way out of that is just pretty wrong."
"If you look at the positive side of coronavirus, it's highlighted how much stuff you can do within the community, that is based on health and social care, but actually doesn't need to be done by the NHS. It can be done by people helping each other. And that's the...read more
"Since the 1990s, the number of people going into training has been cut, nurses numbers have been cut, medical students numbers have been cut. And we have shortages right across the board. In every specialty from anaesthetists to everything. There's a shortage of people with the skills we need right...read more
"If at the base provision of a service you pay the lowest available rates, you're willing to underpay people, you start off on the wrong footing from the get-go. The whole pyramid of care and health is based upon the premise that people like ourselves are altruistic in nature and...read more
"It's not necessarily the funding, it's the management behind the funding. It’s just bad management. My parents both work for the NHS. The amount of paperwork and bureaucracy they have to put in place is just overwhelming. They're constantly being assessed like kids in school."
"They should employ more people. The NHS would be better."
"We're supposed to give compassion, love, dignity and respect. And we give those things. But I think it's very limited in many ways...that the care we’re supposed to give, we’re supposed to support patients, even out in the community as they go out, but we are not able to accommodate...read more
"I suppose the issue is that in theory things are great, but they're not. The workload and the pressures to make all of the things that could work well, if they were given time and energy, the workload takes it away. God I sound so burnt out."