add your story to the wall "I believe that underfundng is harming the NHS “There just isn’t the social care package available at short notice for these patients, they often end up sitting in hospital at weeks at a time, just waiting” By NHS Support Federation | 9th August 2016 “That’s a very difficult thing to have to deal with – when you don’t think you can deliver the care you would want your parents or your relatives to receive.” By NHS Support Federation | 9th August 2016 “The staff crisis is going to worsen and invariably this is going to mean increase waiting time and its true levels of care will deteriorate, because you do need the human resource to deliver the care.” By NHS Support Federation | 9th August 2016 “I had a service user who waited 15 hours and just got sent home. This is someone with schizophrenia, hearing voices, in major distress, just couldn’t get a service. It’s just inhumane and we need to do something about it” By NHS Support Federation | 9th August 2016 “We’ve cut the number of district nurses. We’ve lost all our community matrons” By NHS Support Federation | 21st July 2016 “There is just not enough funding and we are seeing an increasing number of patients with mental health issues in general practice” By NHS Support Federation | 21st July 2016 “Midwives are increasingly stressed, increasingly frustrated, because when you love your job you want to do it properly” By NHS Support Federation | 21st July 2016 “It feels really hard and it’s very depressing working with staff that are so demoralised” By NHS Support Federation | 21st July 2016 “In my experience it is hard to do your job. There aren’t enough staff” By NHS Support Federation | 21st July 2016 “At the moment I’ve got 6 trained staff leaving the unit so that’s 6 trained nurses leaving at once” By NHS Support Federation | 21st July 2016 What the experts say Ben Jackson, Community mental health worker By NHS Support Federation | 9th August 2016 Joe Ebbs, Junior Doctor By NHS Support Federation | 9th August 2016 Todd Leckie, Junior Doctor By NHS Support Federation | 9th August 2016 Christopher Gee, Orthopaedic Registrar By NHS Support Federation | 9th August 2016 Christine Jefferies, Registered General Nurse By NHS Support Federation | 25th July 2016 Emma Corlett, Unison steward at the Norfolk & Suffolk Mental Health Trust By NHS Support Federation | 25th July 2016 Claire Jones, Health visitor and Registered General Nurse By NHS Support Federation | 25th July 2016 Sophie Galloway, GP Partner in West Sussex By NHS Support Federation | 25th July 2016 Professor Cathy Warwick, Royal College of Midwives By NHS Support Federation | 25th July 2016 Tony O’Sullivan, Retired Paediatrician in Lewisham By NHS Support Federation | 25th July 2016 What the public say mark testing By NHS Support Federation | 31st August 2016 Emma Spurgin Hussey By NHS Support Federation | 30th August 2016 Brian cromar By NHS Support Federation | 28th August 2016 John Lipetz By NHS Support Federation | 27th August 2016 Ann Prosser By NHS Support Federation | 26th August 2016 paul tester By NHS Support Federation | 26th August 2016 paul tester By NHS Support Federation | 26th August 2016 Paul Evans By NHS Support Federation | 26th August 2016 James Lazou By NHS Support Federation | 26th August 2016 Janet Touhey By NHS Support Federation | 26th August 2016 Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)