I didn't get the support I needed
"I am going to need another operation soon. And I say soon, there's the potential that the eight month wait that I was told to expect before will now double. And therefore I am not expecting really to be living the next couple of years of my life. Well, not...read more
"I'm a mum of a 17 year old young lady who has had mental health issues. She has really struggled and to be honest, we've had to get her the support that she needed through private support. She has a private psychotherapist because we couldn't get the care that she...read more
"I was diagnosed as autistic a year and a half ago, because I’d had lots of mental health crises over the years. And in accessing quite major crisis counselling as a mum with a very tiny baby, they said ‘How have you ever been diagnosed like this?’ And I'd been...read more
"A friend of ours had a heart attack a fortnight ago. And she went down to the hospital. She was four hours in the ambulance, waiting. There were seven ambulances behind them all waiting. And she said that the staff were fine, but it was horrendous."
"Just getting a place in a care home is actually not easy. When you're making phone call after phone call, and people say ‘We don't have beds’ or ‘We can't give you any more care at home.’"
"Someone I know recently has had a very severe issue with mental health and had to be put into therapy by the NHS. But that kind of service was only available to them once it was considered an emergency."
"We have a family friend who's been suffering with cancer for quite a long time. And their treatment’s been put on the back burner for months now because they have to prioritise coronavirus patients. Obviously you understand, but it's a really difficult thing when you're looking at somebody who's 55,...read more
"I have an 87 year old mum who lives on her own. She hasn't got social care, but the family looks after her. There is surely some way. We've got agencies like Age Concern and various others. But it's all on the phone or on a website. And it's very...read more