To think it’s wrong to use someone’s address to get healthcare in a different area

[Coldnights]

A friend of mine is using another friends address to get healthcare under a different mental health team than the one they should be in.

No it's not wrong at all, what's wrong is that services are such a postcode lottery that she is forced to do this in the first place.

My experience of accessing specialist, limited and underfunded services is that it is the people who shout loudest or use other means (like OPs friend) who manage to be see or get the help they need.
Filling in your forms, waiting quietly to reach the top of the queue and have someone call you when it’s your turn will mean you wait a long time and many others will get there before you.

It’s like this for MN services and SEN provision.

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You're right @TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth.

And it shouldn't be like this. In the ideal world, just because you need a certain provision for your own health should be enough to get that help (Ive seen that happening for things like surgery etc.. too. Not just SEN)

But the ressources are so streched out that it leaves people with no choice but to use whatever means they need for their ow health (or for their dcs) :(:(:(

It’s not right no and wouldn’t advise it but as someone who’s been on waiting lists. I can understand why people feel they have to do it. As teams do vary area to area.