Conservative - Cardiac Nursing - Classical Music
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Sepsis Survivor & Campaigner 🩵
The snap election announcement has caused me 36 hrs of intense soul searching.
Whilst my heart tells me to stand again, there being so much unfinished business across local regeneration and national issues which are important to me, my head knows this to be impossible at this time. It would be difficult to withstand the rigours of an all-out election campaign, a campaign that I’d always wish to lead from the front. Thereafter, upon being re-elected it would be difficult for me to sustain 70 to 80 hour working weeks which were the norm prior to my illness.
I had hoped to phase my return to the House of Commons over the coming months as my abilities improved. Since leaving in-patient rehabilitation a month ago my life now revolves around various medical appointments. I face numerous future operations as a result of the serious sepsis that I suffered which very nearly took my life. I have only just started the prosthetic journey and I have weekly physiotherapy and occupational therapy sessions.
I had the most memorable appearance of my time as an MP at this week’s PMQs: it was emotional and the experience quite surreal. I shall never forget it. I had expected it to be the start of my return. It will, however, be remembered as my last hurrah.
I will now campaign to raise awareness for, and particularly the early recognition of, the onset of sepsis. If this results in the saving of one life or the prevention of the type of disablement that I have suffered it will be a worthwhile campaign. I will also do all that I can to ensure that multiple limb loss amputees get the right prosthetics at the right time to ensure that lives can return to as close to normality as possible.
To be elected to the House of Commons is a rare privilege of life.
I thank my South Thanet constituents for placing their trust in me across three General Elections.
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Petition: Fund the reopening of the three state-of-the-art Rutherford Cancer Centres petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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@TLRailUK Thank you to the driver of the 20:57 at St Albans (southbound) who agreed to stop at all North London stations instead of going fast to Brighton. And thank you to the station master as St Albans for negotiating it. Given the cancellations, we were all very grateful.
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Happy days ☺️
The Bee is back. Join @SaraPascoe, @PaddyGrant, Esme Young and a haberdashery full of new sewers.
Wednesday 24th May. 9pm. BBC One. #SewingBee
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The music was outstanding - inside the Abbey & from the bands of HM Army, Navy & Air Force.
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Awesome 😎
Every day, donated blood saves lives in a multitude of ways - from providing transfusions to help in emergencies, childbirth, during surgery and cancer treatments.
Great to host London’s first ever blood drive at City Hall today and have the opportunity to give blood. #GiveBlood
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Awesome & thank you ☺️
🩸Congratulations to Ken Palmer who celebrated his 100th blood donation recently.
Ken, whose daughter Sally is a research officer at LRI, said: “I think donating blood is a really worthwhile thing to do, especially as I have the blood type that can be given to premature babies.”
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Awesome 😎
Our perfusion director Nick Maggs retired recently after 33 years. He was involved in early work around transplantation and our ECMO service, as well as featuring in 'Surgeons: At the Edge of Life' on @BBCTwo
Thank you Nick for your hard work and enjoy a well-earned retirement.
ALT Nick Maggs at the front of the picture in surgery
ALT Nick Maggs sat on a chair in a surgical theatre overseeing surgery.
ALT Nick Maggs sat on a chair oversees procedures in surgery.
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Oat biscuits 🥰
What is the best biscuit for busy NHS staff tea breaks?
Find out by reading the results of the Direct Uptake of Nutrition and Caffeine Study (DUNCS): bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022… #BMJInfographic #ChristmasBMJ
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I loved these. My Grandma used to give them to us. We were allowed a handful then the box went back into the sideboard. Happy days.
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Dear Kier. I agree. Myself & some of my NHS colleagues have done our bit by attending a 6th form Career’s Fair in London. Much interest in nursing & medicine from local young people. Many valuable recruitment options but this one is proven to be effective & sustainable.
“We’re recruiting too many people from overseas into, for example, the health service”
Labour leader Keir Starmer says the NHS has been “run down” and more should be done to encourage people living in the UK to work in it
bbc.in/3U7PTJi
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@TLRailUK As an ICU nurse working in London, thank you for keeping services running today (5th Oct).
