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"You've only got a certain amount of time and something has to give, and you don't want to compromise your care of patients. But how do you fit everything into that time, when each year you're being asked to do more and more within that short amount of time? And...read more
"The Covid pandemic, for some areas of the NHS – like my department – has actually made work life better. Because you actually have more time allocated for patients. Because you've got additional time for your decontamination between patients and things like that. And just have a second in between...read more
"If I could change one thing? As we are all aware, most of our shifts are 12 hour shifts. A happy worker produces good results. As healthcare people, I believe we really need salary increments. What we are getting is not really good, to be honest, considering what we went through...read more
"I'm a care manager. I don't get paid. And it's not about being paid because my boy gets the life that he does as a result of me being his manager. But there's no recognition, there's no appreciation... If I was in a paid position, you know, I would have...read more
"When I was a carer, and my husband sadly died a few years back, I found respite was non-existent. Previously, it was there. Not much, but it was there. But non-existent at the end, when I twice needed major surgery. There just wasn't any help."
"[For] health care assistants in the health service, there's no way that they can progress and become nurses. Like, you used to have auxiliary nurses. There should be a way that they can progress and learn on the job and start to progress to become a nurse if they want to."
"I always felt that it was okay for us to phone the team. The team could phone us, we could talk, ask questions. We could say 'Look, we don't understand how this works.' We could say 'Look, we don't think this bit of it is working well. Who can we...read more
"Working in the NHS and not being clinical, I hear all the time [how] the clinical staff perceive it compared to how the actual patients perceive it. And because as a clinical person, you do it day in, day out, sometimes we forget that it isn't a day in day...read more
"I'm a student nurse, so I'm between various boards at the moment. But they're always understaffed. There's not been a ward I've been on that's not been understaffed at times. And it does impact patient care. If you don't have enough staff, you don't have enough people to go around...read more
"I think the best thing about the NHS is when things work together and things flow. And I think the best thing that's come about from Covid is that people haven't thought about their own little structures. They've thought about what needed to be done to get on and resolve issues. "
"My background is occupational therapy. And I've worked in statutory services in health and social care. But sadly, around 10 years ago, I came to the point where I just couldn't continue because I did not feel that I could do a good job. I couldn't deliver any meaningful rehab...read more
"I think that it would be nice if everybody was treated as a human being. Sometimes I think by the very nature of the things that we do, we can become a little too robotic. And I think if we were all treated as human beings, that includes the staff...read more