Last year I sent a complaint to my local MP about the fact that the NHS doesn’t fund shockwave therapy, a physiotherapy treatment I needed to help me walk again (I was helped to pay for some sessions by the people here). In my email I mostly wrote about my physical difficulties and how it was impacting my life being barely able to walk, but I also made a brief mention that it adversely affects my mental health to have to live like this. I said the NHS should fund this treatment and also spoke about how there would be fewer people languishing on disability benefits if we could receive the treatment we need on the NHS.
All this time later I have finally got a response from the “Correspondence Officer” at the “Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries Department of Health and Social Care,” doesn’t even give their actual name.
It’s an absolutely infuriating response that ignores all my physical difficulties and the impact it has on my life, ignores my comments about people left to languish on disability due to lack of NHS treatment and just tells me to ask my GP to refer me for mental health treatment if I’m having difficulty coping wit my life situation!
What a shower of absolutely useless bastards this government are.
Thank you. I’m just so used to it by now, and too exhausted to even try and complain any more. Also mental health treatment on the NHS is rubbish anyway. I spent 5 years on the waiting list to get like 8 sessions with an idiot who just told me to draw pictures and meditate.