I think things could be run better
"We're supposed to give compassion, love, dignity and respect. And we give those things. But I think it's very limited in many ways...that the care we’re supposed to give, we’re supposed to support patients, even out in the community as they go out, but we are not able to accommodate...read more
"The prevention of illness is more effective than trying to cure the illness itself. I think that if we could invest more resources into preventing the illness and educating people of a younger age about potential hazards, that would allow the health service to be more efficient in treating the...read more
"We need to look after nurses and doctors or it's going to get massively worse."
"We need more staff, maybe more social care staff or social workers, because then the social care people would be able to get involved. But most bed workloads are so huge that, you know, people slip through the net."
"We need more people on the ground, less people up the top on great big wages that they don't need. Pay the people down the bottom, get more people involved."
"We do have a good healthcare system. The NHS is very good at providing healthcare, compared to a lot of other countries. However, looking at the future, are we going to have the right workforce to continue providing the care that we are providing now?"
"Why are we building all these huge hospitals, when perhaps what we need is just more smaller, local hospitals?"
"They have all this social prescribing, like the active hearts, where you go and you do your exercise and there are things like that. But they're not quite joined up yet. And you know, if you're overweight we can prescribe that you go to the nearest leisure centre and do...read more
"Improve support for carers in the unpaid care sector."
"I think sometimes some of this lack of communication, or good communication, can come out of people who have been working shift after shift back-to-back. And not every patient is a nice patient. People working on a Friday and Saturday have to put up with some of the most horrific...read more
"Our experience is there’s been less listening over the last 10 years, and it's a struggle to keep it going. But it's really worth it. Because in mental health, as in most other areas of health or social care, the people who are having the care, know best what that...read more