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The Duke of Cambridge has paid tribute to the efforts of the NHS and its workers during the Covid pandemic, describing the institution as the most admired organisation around .
William made the comments on a call with a consultant at Belfast hospital, it was one of a series of telephone and video calls to NHS staff across the country and in all departments since the start of the year.
On the call with Dr Thelma Craig, a respiratory consultant at the Mater Hospital, William said: I just want to say on behalf of everyone what a fantastic job you’ve done. You’ve all held it together and been absolutely wonderful people.
Prince William shares an emotional phone call with NHS nurse
The Duke of Cambridge personally thanked 300 NHS staff for their ‘fantastic work’ Max Mumby/IndigoGetty Images
Since the start of 2021, The Duke of Cambridge has personally called more than 300 healthcare workers to thank them for their hard work during the COVID crisis.
Prince William called Jenny Manson, 54, a nurse who formed a bubble with the family of a terminally ill girl so she could help care for the girl and protect them from COVID.
Jenny, a community children’s nurse from Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, told the Duke she had cared for nine-year-old Holly Clarke at her home, so her parents Richard and Stevie, twin sister Becca and older sister Emily could spend their last precious months with her before her death in October.
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Masjid E Saliheen in Blackburn (Picture LT) Covid vaccinations will be offered in a Blackburn mosque for the first time. A pop-up vaccination clinic will take place on Saturday 10 April between 10am-1pm at the Masjid E Saliheen on Didsbury Street, Blackburn. Members of the mosque are working in partnership with NHS Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Blackburn with Darwen Council and Lancashire Council of Mosques (LCM) to offer coronavirus vaccinations to eligible local people. These include people over the age of 50, or in an “at-risk” clinically vulnerable group over 16, health and social care workers and carers who have not already had their first jab.
Ms Manson, a community children’s nurse from Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, told the duke how she had cared for nine-year-old Holly Clarke at her home, so her parents Richard and Stevie Clarke, her twin sister Becca and older sister Emily could spend their last precious months with her before her death in October.
The family nominated her in the Nurse of Year category of the Scottish Health Awards and she won, receiving her honour late last year.
The 54-year-old nurse, a single mother herself to 16-year-old twin daughters, worked at the family’s home from May last year, to protect them from the risk of catching the virus.