I think things could be run better
"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
"The people are the most important asset in the NHS. It’s clear they are woefully underfunded, underpaid and overworked. If we lose the people, we lose the system. "
"If I've got one big beef with the system it's that the emphasis on acute care overwhelms what should be an emphasis on prevention. And that opens up a whole lot of different questions about how people are educated to understand what is necessary to circumvent their need to see...read more
"Midwives and nurses,...at the moment you can tell that they want to be caring, but they are so stretched. I'm a bit of a shy person, you don't want to be the person that's adding an extra strain."
"A number of folks that I know who work within the NHS talk about how they're regularly understaffed. And, to me, that's an issue of either the working conditions or the level of pay. "
"Staff within both the care and the health systems are underpaid, understaffed, under recognised and never given the appropriate time. My daughter, who's a podiatrist, says that they've done better out of Covid because they have to clean between each of their appointments. This has given her enough time to...read more
"Bits are being privatised without us knowing, and it’s reducing the quality of care."