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"Another time talking therapy was arranged by my work, and I went there. This was after my husband passed away. And the person fell asleep."
"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
"There needs to be a conversation about how we use [the] proliferation of information on the internet. Because it can increase people's anxiety about their health issues. What do we do with all this information? It can be really confusing [and] really stressful. And then [you] go to the doctor who patronises...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."
"The home that I work in is a private care home. So I only have first-hand experience of that. But, for me, it's the quality and the amount of care that's received in private care homes, where people are paying probably an average of about £1,500 per week to stay there. Versus what they're actually getting,...read more
"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
"The people that I support have been finding it really difficult to get healthcare simply because they couldn't speak the language. So I'll give a scenario where a couple went to hospital to reverse an operation that took place in their home country. They wanted to have kids but instead...read more
"I had a sister who was in a care home. As soon as you walked in, you could smell things that you shouldn't have. And it wasn't her fault. I mean...she did actually [get a] room for herself, but others were put together. And it's never been anything like the standard of...read more
"They declared that my hip wasn't bad enough to have an operation. So I decided, because it was affecting my quality of life so much, to pay to go privately. And when that was operated on, the consultant told me that the hip was actually in really poor shape and and was certainly ready to be...read more
"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
"Where my son's healthcare is concerned, he's been critically ill twice and he's been seriously ill on many, many, many, many occassions. And for the most part of that, the care has been very good. We've had our ups and downs, and we've had times where doctors don't want to...read more