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"We need to look after nurses and doctors or it's going to get massively worse."
"Some people are racist. For example Pakistani people wear very traditional clothes, but some people don’t like it. I’m wearing a scarf, and maybe some people don’t like that."
"I get given medication, but I am not sure what it is for, or what is in it. If it is the weekend or the Centre of Sign Sight Sound are not there, I won’t take the medication because I am not sure of it. "
"We visited social services and they were expecting us, so they knew we were Deaf, but the staff couldn’t sign and expected us to lipread. I was boiling inside, I felt so uncomfortable. They just had no awareness."
"There shouldn't be a stigma that just because they have a learning disability, everything is wrong with them, you know what I mean? They need to trust the parent over what is normal for this child and what we feel needs assistance. "
"I’ve noticed a lot of male GPs, when you're going to speak to them and you're trying to explain your body to them, they have never experienced how women function on a monthly basis… they will just ignore you."
"I used to be so worried that every time I speak, people will be like ‘Oh, she's bringing the race card in again’. And I didn't for many years. I'd be like ‘Okay, I'm the only black person in this room, let me not make it about colour’. But actually,...read more
"As long as someone who lives down the road in the poorest area cannot afford to pay for the most expensive private care which is available, they're missing something. Someone is getting specialised care or specialised support that the other person is not getting. So that imbalance remains. "
"There are a lot of old people who don't have anyone. They come into hospital and they do not have anyone who can speak for them. And that's a scary position to be in."
"One of our ladies is a quadriplegic. She's been in palliative care quite a few times. And they basically leave them. ‘Oh, well, does it really matter?’"
"If you've got dementia, or a learning disability, that's how I feel. You don't matter."
"In the antenatal period, nobody was really aware of what that might be like for a lesbian. At a time when people weren't really out about being gay and lesbian parents. "