I think resources are too stretched
"I worked in a hospital. I've stood on one side of a patient's bed arguing with the consultant or the doctor on the other side of the bed. ‘Whose money are we going to use? Do we use health? Or do we use social services?’ It's just not changed."
"What is painfully obvious to me is that if you have financial resources and, like myself, a good number of siblings, you are far more able to support someone in your own family who is in need of significant help than someone who has still to go to work or...read more
"They are so tired, they are so overworked. They've lost the compassion and they've lost the empathy. The healthcare system is supposed to be just that: a caring system. The problem is its lost how to care. And that's because it's under resourced."
"I had two members of my family in the same care home. At the risk of sounding political, and this is not meant to, my uncle was getting everything for free. But my auntie was having to pay £800 a week. I personally struggled with that. They are literally in...read more
"I had a lady that came in and I said to her, you know, you can go and buy some paracetamol over the counter. No, she made me write out a prescription for paracetamol. And I can't imagine, I think for me to write that prescription would have cost the...read more
"There's no care there at all, from the people that own the company. It's all about this being a market for making a shedload of money. And that is what it's about. Thankfully, the people that are actually there right at the bottom of the chain, the carers... I don't...read more
"It's about caring. And it turns a lot of things on its head. But until society's happier to spend some of their hard earned money through taxes to make the services work for us. It's us today, but it could be them tomorrow. "
"We're dealing with significant levels of mental health issues amongst young people. And there is without any shadow of doubt, nothing like enough to go around. There's no question about that."
"I wish the government would stop bloody putting money into stupid stuff and start actually giving some money to the NHS… do we need another bloody submarine?"
"I'd like to see more money available locally, so that GP surgeries can be suitably resourced. So that there aren’t long waiting lists, and so that interventions can happen sooner. So that we're not having to wait till it's an emergency."
"We do the care, we look after the residents that come into the place, but we’re under that much strain. We’re undervalued, you know. It's that ‘you get this and then I’m out.’ There's only so much money spent on personal care and it’s all you can do. It’s all...read more
"There are stories of incredible amounts of waste or financial mismanagement, where you’re paying £50 for a light bulb or £30 for a box of Puracy, that you can get for 40 pence. There are issues of financial mismanagement or financial waste that, if addressed, could transform our NHS and...read more