I think resources are too stretched
"The support that I was previously accessing is no longer available because the funding has ended. I think it's really detrimental that lots of things seem to be on short budgets. It's one year or three year grants."
"I was actually told this by my senior manager. It is cheaper to provide emergency care for someone who is having mental health crisis than to provide support for their early onset or even just for the social aspect of their life."
"I don't think it necessarily needs loads of extra money thrown at it. I think there's a lot of money wasted. There's huge inefficiencies everywhere."
"I think social care is crumbling. I think services are woeful. And I think it's not the fault of anybody trying to provide them. If there's no emphasis on the small intervention, and the fact that people need people, rather than face less support. I think that things will only...read more
"We'd already gone to CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services). We'd had a really thorough assessment, but the follow-through was awful. They decided he didn't need to see a psychiatrist. You know, there's just lots of things that he did kind of need, but he wasn't getting. I think...read more
"I would quite happily pay an extra £20-30 in National Insurance contributions a year if it was going into the NHS. And if you ask the majority of people, they would quite happily pay that extra £20-30 a year. "
"We need to understand that the amount of social care required isn't going to decrease. Because the healthcare is so much better, people are living longer. So more people are going to need the provision of social care for more years than they do at the moment. Some are reaching...read more
"Working in the NHS, I work at a crisis team at the moment. It's incredibly busy and very variable. I feel frustrated at times. I can't do the things I'd really love to do. They just don't have the resources."
"They're not very keen on the idea of going into a care home. And I don't really see myself as being the caring type, going and doing it myself, in the foreseeable future. And I don't know what the prospects of care at home are for them. Unless they pay...read more
"The care [my mother’s] got now, she’s got to sell their home to pay for. Her and my dad worked all their lives. They'll have it taken away just to pay for her care."
"It's worrying, obviously, the cost of it. Because more and more of us are living longer. And I was seeing on the telly recently, they were saying that if you have savings of more than £23,000 or £24,000 pounds, you are expected to look after yourself. Which is fine, but...read more
"In Casualty, we used to be really pleased if someone said they had private insurance, because it meant they could go to the private ward and not use one of our precious beds."