Health and care
"The nurse practitioners are normally the best people in the surgery. They listen to the patients and somehow they manage to fix you."
"We need local hospitals for minor injuries and 'patching up' in order to alleviate the waiting times and intake into A&E. A mini-ambulance could travel every hour to the main hospital, if necessary, to transfer people for more specialised treatment."
"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
"I wish I'd put my foot down earlier. I spoke to three consultants, two white male consultants, and they said I should try a VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarean). And my mum’s also a nurse. My mum said ‘don’t let them put you through this. I lost a friend two...read more
"There's huge health inequalities for autistic women. Not just getting a diagnosis, but getting any healthcare after you have been diagnosed. Because all of a sudden everything becomes your autism, the broken leg, the scratch on your finger. It's all autism."
"They should employ more people. The NHS would be better."
"Staff teams that I work with can be very quick to judge families’ experiences of caring for people that they're supporting. And part of my job is getting people to think about the perspective of the person they're working with. But often if they've had lots of support from their...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. "
"There are people in the NHS who are wasting money on things that shouldn't be. That's the same in any organisation, but you seem to get a lot of bad eggs, and people not doing their jobs efficiently at all levels. "
"The next doctor I saw was absolutely amazing. And he basically said, 'Look, I have 100% recovery rate with the patients that I work with. Let's partner up and beat this together. Because it is an illness and we can help you.'"
"Lizzie says, to her, the relationship with personal assistants is really, really crucial. The flexibility, the intimacy of that relationship and the skills and the responsibilities of that role that people have. So that she can feel safe, respected, and have choices in life."