In depth: My experiences of providing care
"You've only got a certain amount of time and something has to give, and you don't want to compromise your care of patients. But how do you fit everything into that time, when each year you're being asked to do more and more within that short amount of time? And...read more
"If I could change one thing? As we are all aware, most of our shifts are 12 hour shifts. A happy worker produces good results. As healthcare people, I believe we really need salary increments. What we are getting is not really good, to be honest, considering what we went through...read more
"When I was a carer, and my husband sadly died a few years back, I found respite was non-existent. Previously, it was there. Not much, but it was there. But non-existent at the end, when I twice needed major surgery. There just wasn't any help."
"I always felt that it was okay for us to phone the team. The team could phone us, we could talk, ask questions. We could say 'Look, we don't understand how this works.' We could say 'Look, we don't think this bit of it is working well. Who can we...read more
"I'm a student nurse, so I'm between various boards at the moment. But they're always understaffed. There's not been a ward I've been on that's not been understaffed at times. And it does impact patient care. If you don't have enough staff, you don't have enough people to go around...read more
"I think the best thing about the NHS is when things work together and things flow. And I think the best thing that's come about from Covid is that people haven't thought about their own little structures. They've thought about what needed to be done to get on and resolve issues. "
"My background is occupational therapy. And I've worked in statutory services in health and social care. But sadly, around 10 years ago, I came to the point where I just couldn't continue because I did not feel that I could do a good job. I couldn't deliver any meaningful rehab...read more
"I think that it would be nice if everybody was treated as a human being. Sometimes I think by the very nature of the things that we do, we can become a little too robotic. And I think if we were all treated as human beings, that includes the staff...read more
"[If] a family suddenly had to step in, which caused problems with their work, there just wasn't any help available whatsoever. Very sad, but that's the way it was. And I would phone 20 to 40 homes, trying to get help."