MBE. Rtd Nightingale Nurse. 30 years overseas with FCDO. Living with advanced breast cancer. Loving life
Poole, England
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If you want to follow one person who is endlessly inspiring make it @John_Dabell
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“At moments like this, friendship matters more than ever. Foreign Office staff including our team here in Nepal are working around the clock to support affected British natonals & their families.”
For consular assistance: 📞
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This is not a temporary spike. It is a stain.
Nearly 1,000 aid workers killed, injured or kidnapped last year around the world.
States, armed groups and all those who enable them must be held accountable.
My briefing from Kyiv on #WorldHumanitarianDay: bit.ly/4hEviuT
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CANCER
Claim today.
Accept uncertainty.
Navigate with hope.
Choose optimism.
Empower others.
Remember how far you've come.
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This has to be the start of a real effort to end the social care catastrophe.
@AndyBurnham says he’s willing to spend political capital on this - and so am I.
I’ll fight to ensure family carers aren't forgotten. We need cross-party consensus, and I hope the PM’s door is open.
Andy Burnham will unveil plans next week for adult social care in the first major policy speech of his premiership as he pledges to “face it and fix it”
The prime minister has pledged to overhaul social care so that it “operates on the NHS principle” and is free at the point of need in a move that is projected to cost £18.5 billion a year
However, The Times has been told that this “universal” offer is unlikely to cover the “daily living costs” of a care home, such as laundry, food, accommodation and energy bills
It means home residents could still face bills of tens of thousands of pounds for accommodation costs under proposals for a new National Care Service
Covering these costs for everybody would add about an extra £16 billion to annual costs, according to estimates based on average care home fees
Dame Louise Casey, who is leading a commission looking at adult social care in England, is poised to launch a national conversation this month on how it should be paid for
Burnham is expected to give a speech setting out his vision in London next week
With @eleanorhayward and @ProducerOllie
thetimes.com/article/ff51a7a…
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Ignore the haters. The evidence is clear: crime is falling and London remains one of the safest big cities in the world.
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It can take many leaders years to grow into the statesman you became in just two years.
European and Ukrainian security is stronger because of you.
Thank you, dear Keir.
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Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.
Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.
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Last night I attended a wonderful @BreastCancerNow event with my sister. One of the important messages it reinforced is to check your breasts regularly and know what is normal for you. Early detection really can save lives.
When breast cancer is found early, survival rates are extremely high. But the reality becomes very different when the disease spreads beyond the breast like mine.
For those of us living with metastatic (Stage 4) breast cancer, the five year survival rate is only around 29%.
When you are living with an incurable diagnosis and have so few treatment lines available, time is everything. That is why it is utterly incomprehensible that @NICEComms is still denying us #Enhertu, a targeted, life extending drug already provided in over 70 countries worldwide, including Scotland. They claim we aren’t "cost-effective."
For those of us whose lives depend on access to new treatments, those words are incredibly hard to hear.
Breast cancer remains the leading cause of death for women under 60 in the UK. 31 women die from it every single day. That’s 11,500 mothers, sisters, daughters, friends and colleagues lost every year. How can this gatekeeping be justified, especially when new funding thresholds were introduced in April to allow the NHS to spend more on severe, life threatening diseases?
Our lives should not be reduced to a spreadsheet column.
Please, if you do one thing today, sign and share the Enhertu petition. Help us force NICE and the manufacturers @DaiichiSankyoUK and @ASTRAZENECAUK
back to the table. We deserve a deal, we deserve more time and we need it now ⬇️
action.breastcancernow.org/s…
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There’s so much evidence for gardens, nature and healing environments, we must value it more! What’s lovely about the Kings scheme is that they’ve added oxygen and technical ITU kit so very sick patients can benefit!
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The patients of St Bartholomew’s Hospital were regularly wheeled outside to aid their recovery.
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Database benchmarks are easy to game.
So we built ours to be reflect reality. Same hardware, open harness, full durability for every engine, every config file in the repo.
Here is how SurrealDB v3.x actually holds up:
To feel fresh air, smell the flowers and be surrounded by greenery. Surely one of the best medicines? All patients would benefit from having accessible outside spaces to enjoy bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2p…
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En la antigua Grecia, las mujeres tenían prohibido estudiar medicina, hasta que alguien rompió la ley.
Un día Hagnódica se cortó el pelo y entró en la facultad de medicina de Alejandría vestida de hombre. Mientras caminaba por las calles de Atenas tras completar sus estudios de medicina, oyó los gritos de una mujer de parto. Sin embargo, la mujer no quería que Hagnódica la tocara, a pesar del intenso dolor, porque creía que Hagnódica era un hombre.
Hagnódica demostró su identidad femenina desnudándose y ayudando a la mujer a dar a luz. La historia pronto se extendió entre las mujeres, y todas las enfermas comenzaron a acudir a Hagnódica.
Los médicos varones, envidiosos, acusaron a Hagnódica, a quien creían hombre, de seducir a sus pacientes
En su juicio, Hagnódica compareció ante el tribunal y demostró su identidad femenina, pero esta vez fue condenada a muerte por estudiar y ejercer la medicina siendo mujer. Las mujeres se rebelaron contra la sentencia, especialmente las esposas de los jueces que la habían condenado a muerte.
Algunos decían que si Hagnódica moría, morirían con ella. Incapaces de soportar la presión de sus esposas y otras mujeres, los jueces anularon la condena de Hagnódica , y a partir de entonces, las mujeres pudieron ejercer la medicina, siempre y cuando solo atendieran a mujeres.
Así, Hagnódica dejó su huella en la historia como la primera médica, ginecóloga y especialista en medicina griega.
Esta placa que representa a Hagnódica trabajando fue excavada en Ostia, Italia.
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“Shame must change sides” 💪🏼
Wonderful to see the inspirational Gisèle Pelicot in conversation with Helena Kennedy at the Hay Festival. The whole audience rose to their feet as soon as Gislèle came onto the stage.
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An honour to celebrate International Day of the Midwife recently with @MidwivesRCM to recognise the extraordinary dedication of midwives across the country.
Midwives are the foundation of safe maternity care - but too many are overstretched and under-supported. We need a system where midwives can thrive, because safe maternity care is not a luxury, it is a standard.
Thank you for everything you do for women and families every single day 💙
.@UNReliefChief brilliant interview, as always, on @BBCr4today. You are such an effective communicator as you tell the world about the desperate challenges faced by millions. If only more leaders had humanitarian concerns as their priority. Relief, not destruction
40 years ago I qualified as a nurse at St Thomas’s hospital. Life has turned full circle as tonight I wait to welcome the birth of my grandchild there. Lovely to have a quick hug with my son as he took a breather. @GSTTnhs
