from pillar to post

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"If you imagine being a small child and being put from pillar to post with different people and then you arrive virtually into a stranger's house, you are going to be very scared," she adds.

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Again, she says she was passed from pillar to post, and that getting help was a fight.

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The Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the plan will bring down "devastating hospital waiting lists and stop patients going from pillar to post to get treated".

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He added the number of parties involved could be "depressing for a shared owner; that feeling of being passed from pillar to post and being fobbed off at different parts of the process".

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"Their voices are not being heard - they are being thrown from pillar to post around all the different organisations but nobody is actually listening to what is happening to them," she said.

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