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Accessing Service the Creative Way

Gary Direnfeld

This after a several month stay in the children’s mental health centre to get his schizophrenia under control. I suggested they speak to the opposition health critic in government. In more recent years I consulted with a person whose adult sibling was languishing in hospital. I couldn’t live with that.

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Social prescribing is a lovely idea but it won’t make up for the care I’m not getting

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Hard-pressed GPs will be able to refer patients to someone else and free up their consulting room at a time when we face a GP shortage. This is the work they are trained to do and have been doing for years, and I don’t think they have even been consulted for their views. I first came across social prescribing in 2015.