
Allan Preston
Journalist at The Irish News
Journalist in Belfast with the Irish News. [email protected]
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msn.com | Allan Preston
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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irishnews.com | Allan Preston
NEARLY 5,000 patients in Northern Ireland have been referred to long Covid clinics since the pandemic, new figures show. A written question from the Alliance MLA Nuala McAllister to the health minister asked for the number of referrals to long Covid clinics, broken down by health trust. According to the NHS, long Covid refers to symptoms that can last weeks or months after the initial infection from Covid-19 has ended.
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irishnews.com | Allan Preston
A nurse from Annalong who shares mental health advice on YouTube has been named as Northern Ireland’s nurse of the year. Kelly Forbes works as a senior mental health nurse, based in the Newry and District GP Federation. The Royal College of Nursing awarded the top honour for her work to empower patients to take an active role in managing their mental health and for transforming how patients access support.
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1 day ago |
msn.com | Allan Preston
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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irishnews.com | Allan Preston
QUEEN’S University Belfast has confirmed it is no longer investing in Israeli companies. It follows an announcement by Trinity College Dublin, which said it will divest from any new arrangements with Israeli universities, firms and institutions. Pro-Palestinians activists have since called on other Irish universities to do the same in protest against the war in Gaza.
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