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New dedicated Parkinson's nurse for Island

Follows 'long and difficult process'

After a wait of around eighteen months the Isle of Man has a new, specialist Parkinson's nurse.

Vicki Francis, who previously lived and worked in the Lancaster and Morecambe area, has started work on the Island meeting local sufferers. 

She takes over the post made vacant following the retirement of Sue Lawley in 2021.

Chair of the Parkinson's Disease Society Isle of Man Pamela Shimwell-Mayo, says finding a suitable replacement has been a long and difficult process, made harder by the Covid pandemic:

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