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"I believe that underfundng is harming the NHS

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“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”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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”

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“We’ve cut the number of district nurses. We’ve lost all our community matrons”

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“There is just not enough funding and we are seeing an increasing number of patients with mental health issues in general practice”

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“Midwives are increasingly stressed, increasingly frustrated, because when you love your job you want to do it properly”

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“It feels really hard and it’s very depressing working with staff that are so demoralised”

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“In my experience it is hard to do your job. There aren’t enough staff”

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“At the moment I’ve got 6 trained staff leaving the unit so that’s 6 trained nurses leaving at once”

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