paula rayson

Nurse, Leading and facilitating improvements in healthcare for Dorset at University Hospital Dorset. All views my own

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time. Most of them were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis.

These children were essentially in their death beds, awaiting what was at that time, certain death. The scientists moved swiftly and proceeded to inject the children with a new purified extract of insulin.

As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first one to be injected began to wake up. Then one by one, all the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room that was full of death and gloom suddenly became a place of joy and hope.

In the early 1920s, Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin under John Macleod at the University of Toronto. With the help of James Collip, insulin was purified, making it available to successfully treat diabetes. Both Banting and Macleod earned Nobel Prizes for their work in 1923.

Banting was 32 when he received the Nobel Prize, and he chose to share half the prize money with Best, who was his assistant and just 24 years old at the time. Banting refused to put his name on the patent and instead sold it to the University of Toronto for $1. He thought it was unethical to profit from a discovery that would save millions of lives. "Insulin belongs to the world, not to me," he said.

[paula rayson @RaysonPaula]

State-of-the-art new theatre building finally opens at Poole Hospital https://t.co/Iv7YaeXnIm

[paula rayson @RaysonPaula]

@Mr_M_Dent That’s so lovely. We had a get together last year with our year six school teacher from 1980, about 15 of us turned up at his sheltered accommodation lounge to show our appreciation for him, he was so overwhelmed, it was beautiful x

[paula rayson @RaysonPaula]

@MenoScandal @SteveBarclay @safrabc

[paula rayson @RaysonPaula]

Great to take the education team around and see the build progressing @OneNHSinDorset #nhs

[paula rayson @RaysonPaula]

@LisaMcManus12 @BEAT_UHD @UHD_NHS You’re welcome ☺️

[Britain People @Britain_People]

GREED IS GOOD

TORIES crack down on nuisance begging.

BUT do nothing about BARONESS MICHELLE MONE who ripped the NHS off for £76m.

RETWEET to remind Michelle Mone to repay OUR money.

[Steve Rayson @steverayson]

Feels weird seeing my book in the University of Bath library. #badgeland

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

. @GaryLineker asked to step back from hosting a FOOTBALL show because he has a personal opinion on something important.
Let's talk RICHARD SHARP, current BBC Chairman under 2 dodgy investigations for giving Tory party £400,000 in donations and organising £800k loan for Johnson 🙄

[Steve Rayson @steverayson]

I was overjoyed this morning to receive this from Alan Johnson, the former Health Secretary. You can get my book Badgeland: Memoir of a Labour Party Young Socialist in 1980s Britain at https://t.co/L7fSa8JTZZ

[Steve Rayson @steverayson]

My new book 'Badgeland: Memoir of a Labour Party Young Socialist in 1980s Britain' is released into the wild today! You can get a copy here https://t.co/L7fSa8JTZZ

[Steve Rayson @steverayson]

My book about life as a young socialist in Thatcher's Britain is now available at https://t.co/L7fSa8JTZZ
#writingcommunity #LabourParty

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Is it just me or is the govt’s argument for not allowing inflation-matching pay rises for the public sector boiling down to: ‘there isn’t any money left because we took it for ourselves and gave it to our mates?’

[Isabel Smith 💙 @IsabelSmith01]

We are looking for 2 Project Managers @UHD_NHS to help us reconfigure clinical services for the benefit of patients. https://t.co/VAWOyH2qvi

[University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust @UHD_NHS]

The wraps are coming off our innovative new theatres complex at Poole Hospital! Equipment is in place with cleaning and commissioning now underway. Access for theatre staff, anaesthetists and surgeons to come next, ready for a move in date later this year #TransformationTuesday

[paula rayson @RaysonPaula]

Beds and ambulances require staff, that’s the main problem Decent pay attracts staff, 10% vacancies now #nhs #nhspay https://t.co/AVDTOzdAdP

[paula rayson @RaysonPaula]

Watching Rishi on #BBCLauraK is making my blood boil. The arrogance and lack of ability to give a straight answer. #governmentkillingnhs

[lucy woods @LucyWoodslucy70]

Tory Health Minister says Nurses have to carry on , pay rise unsustainable.

[FY23 🩺 @EmergencyMedDr]

Harrowing words from a senior emergency medicine doctor showing the despair at not being able to provide the level of care every doctor hopes to for their patients. Every doctor, nurse & HCW can empathise with this right now.

Shared w/ permission. Pls RT to get this out there.