I think things could be run better
"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
"If you're in trouble, and you're lucid enough to be able to know that you're in trouble, there should be somewhere you can actually go to get the help, before you get to a point where you or the crisis team have to step in and there's hospitalisation involved. I...read more
"But there's a more holistic approach to managing mental health and physical problems. When I was 21, I had a disc removed in my back because at that time, that was what they did, if you had a faulty disc. I was actually registered disabled for about three or four...read more
"I think care is about people. It's about understanding people. It's about accepting that we are all different and we all have different needs. My experience has been, especially through Covid, that the voluntary sector have really come to the fore in providing that care. I think the authorities have...read more
"The NHS has to commission if they want to offer a service, I think they have to actually put in a bid in to offer that service. And then if it is not successful, for whatever reasons, it will go to the private company. And that's what happened to the...read more
"I suppose the issue is that in theory things are great, but they're not. The workload and the pressures to make all of the things that could work well, if they were given time and energy, the workload takes it away. God I sound so burnt out."
"We all stood outside clapping for the NHS and those sorts of things for weeks at a time. And yet, they won't give the nurses a pay rise. They're dead on their feet. They're absolutely dead on their feet. They're still having to pay £9,000 a year to train to...read more