A shielding nurse hopes the Covid-19 vaccine will get her back on the frontline
direct to your inboxAn Oldham nurse who was the first person in the local NHS to get the Covid-19 vaccine says she hopes it will allow her to return to the frontline after months of shielding.Irene Shepherd, a practice nurse at Hopwood House Practice on Lees Road for the past five years received her jab on the evening of Monday, December 14.She qualified as a nurse in 1991 and has spent her entire career working within the NHS, and prior to her current practice she worked at Leesbrook Surgery on Mellor Street.However Irene, who lives in Royton with her husband, has nephrotic syndrome which affects her kidneys.She received a kidney transplant, and has been treated with immunosuppressants over the past ten years.This means she was classed as