You did ask:-
Social care- living longer, more health conditions, dementia etc. Something has to be done.
Schools- where do we start there🤷🏻♀️. Why not actually have people who do/have done spent their life in education be fully involved in decisions to say- yes that will work, no that works in theory but it will not work in practice and you’ve got to be taking the Mickey Mouse??
NHS- waiting times. GP appointments- unless you are clever enough to preempt your illness, to book an appointment for 3 weeks time.
Mental health- as we are a ticking time bomb
Homelessness (see the EU money for this, we’ve had, not used, and have to send back- why??? I can spend it in a morning on how I would use it for homelessness!)
Defence- looking at who are ‘ruling/in power’ in some of the most powerful counties, and it scares me. I won’t be surprised if WWlll breaks out, so I’d like to know our defence is ‘on point’ lol. Seriously it does scare me🙈.
Dentists- I’m putting this separate to NHS, but for those looking for an NHS dentist in some areas it’s like looking for a needle in a hey stack they can’t find. It’s easy for people to say ‘look for a dental school, there students will do it etc’, but when the nearest is a £10 bus ride, £80 train ticket, they are a single mum with 3 children- it’s not like jumping in your car and be there in an hour. (Hypothetical situation adapted from one on MN a few days ago). The funding needs to change. Can you blame dentists for only doing the work they will be paid for the most, and not treating NHS patients? I’m not sure hence the asking- do dentists have to take a % of NHS or can they refuse them all together?
Financial aid- ds is at university and he wants to be a solicitor. The fees that a solicitor now gets for financial aid is a capped fee- so if I remember correctly, correct me if I’m wrong, whether they do 8 hours or 188 for a case they are paid the same. So solicitors aren’t taking them- can you blame them?
Housing- I think it’s all well selling a plot, and a developer building 15 luxury 5/6 bed homes, that in reality often house only 3/4 individuals. What about using this land
to build smaller 1/2/3 bed homes, surely we could get 50/80 of these homes, if we made 3/4 story flats. People hear ‘social housing’ And think huge run down, drug ridden, estates of the 80’s. But done correctly, they don’t have to be. Plus a lot of people who are homeless aren’t- in to drugs, have no education, are trouble makers etc. If you listen to a lot of their stories, they are far from that. But they’ve got stuck in a hole they can’t get out of. Then we have the families who are 4/5/6/7/8 individuals living in 1/2 rooms, waiting for a home big enough. What lives do these children have? It must be so difficult for parents. Thankfully yes they do have a roof over their head, but sometimes more than a roof is needed. Imagine you have two teens, and two toddlers, and your teens are trying to revise for their GCSE’s but they don’t have a room they can go to, to do that. It’s sad.
Universal credit- I think that needs looking at, because the waiting times are stupid.
PIP payments- this is another area. This is because it affected me personally. I have 7 diagnosis. When I had my first PIP assessment I had enhanced care and standard mobility. When I had my second assessment, even though things had got worse and I was struggling more, I had zero for care and standard mobility. Because the money for my weekly cleaner, and personal assistant to come help bath me was taken away, my health has deteriorated further. Currently I am on day 6 of no bath or shower, as I hurt my back trying to get laundry out of the machine, and I can not get into the bath to shower myself- but that’s ok, because someone in an office who never met me, made a decision on what was wrote down about me. For example when then the assessor asked me what caused the tremors in my hand, I said I don’t know it could be my hyper mobility, fibromyalgia or B12 deficiency. She replied ‘but you must know, so which one is it?’, I replied I don’t know, and she replied ‘well if you can’t give me an answer I can’t write it down’. 3 weeks later my GP said ‘but we don’t know what it is. We don’t think it’s anything serious neurological. It could be interactions between some of your medication. We just don’t know’. She also wrote I was ‘well fed by looking at me’. I’m a small 16, I’d told her, I eat 4 meals a week at most, and when I’d been put on an antipsychotic medication I’d put on over 3 stone in under 3 months. And now I’m on a mood stabiliser, the weight is just not coming off, despite me not eating, because I have zero appetite! So I look well fed, and I eat 3 regular meals a day...... well according to what she wrote down anyway. That’s not the truth, and not what my mouth said!!