I'm grateful for the care I've had
"The NHS is an absolutely amazing organization. We don't know how lucky we are. And that these are, you know, minor gripes in some respects... I think that when it comes to specific interventions needed under crisis, they're just amazing and perpetually amazing in the hardest of circumstances as well."
"I had a cousin who had Down's syndrome. And she was about 10 years older than me. And when my aunt died in the mid 90s, she had essentially scrimped and saved all her life to ensure that Ruth would be all right after she went. And Ruth was able to live at...read more
"Two and a half years ago, I was diagnosed with bowel cancer [and] was operated on in hospital. And so my experience has been a very positive one, in terms of the quickness, in terms of the diagnosis. And then the prognosis and the treatment that was provided. The aftercare treatment has...read more
"We belong to a good church. So we've been really lucky in that sense. […] The coffee mornings, to me, have been great because I've been able to see other people."
"Certainly, supporting both of my parents for a while last year, [they] were receiving daily visits from a mental health sort of home visit team... I was really impressed with the amount of care and support they got. But also the amount of communication with me and my sister as the...read more
"Critical care when people are critically ill...the response is amazing, and works really well. And from personal experience, when my daughter was a baby, she had some involvement from health services and had to be hospitalised and was on a paediatric ward. And the care that she got was really attentive.I...read more
"I found out I breast cancer... they'd done biopsies...and, since that day, I had phone calls and I had hospital appointments. I had my doctor phoning to make sure that I was okay. And when I went to the hospital, people could not have been nicer. I got the surgery I needed straight away and the aftercare was absolutely amazing. I had Breast Cancer Now on the phone...read more
"I now have a social worker I talk to every two weeks, which is great. She's helped me with anxiety and assertiveness and all that kind of stuff."
"I remember a few years ago my father had been in hospital. He'd lost his mobility. And he couldn't go back home and and live on his own. But, luckily, at that point he was able to get a place in an Intermediate Care establishment and he was there for a few...read more