I think things could be run better
"It's not necessarily the funding, it's the management behind the funding. It’s just bad management. My parents both work for the NHS. The amount of paperwork and bureaucracy they have to put in place is just overwhelming. They're constantly being assessed like kids in school."
"My relative had a condition that was what they call multi-system, so it doesn't fit neatly into one speciality. And there was no joint approach. The health system didn't seem to serve her very well, because she would be referred to a consultant who would look at her from the...read more
"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
"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."
"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."