She was well known for representing several leading nationalist causes in the mid-Ulster area.
Martin McGuinness has confirmed that he has formally resigned as the MP for Mid-Ulster.
Mid-Ulster DUP MLA, Ian McCrea, said the county Tyrone facility was one of the best within the company.
Mr McGuinness was elected MP for Mid-Ulster in 1997, but he has never taken his seat in Westminster.
Meanwhile, Mid-Ulster decathlete Paul Tohill bettered 7, 000 points for the first time at a meeting in California last week.
The Northern Trust said it would move complex surgery cases from Whiteabbey and Mid-Ulster hospitals to Antrim and Causeway hospitals.
They join current Environment Minister Alex Attwood and mid-Ulster MLA Patsy McGlone.
On Thursday, Basil McCrea and John McCalliser quit the UUP over its decision to support a unionist unity candidate in the Mid-Ulster by-election.
Both men have quit the Ulster Unionist Party over the decision of the party to support a unionist unity candidate in the Mid-Ulster by-election.
Mr McGuinness, who is also the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, confirmed on Sunday that he had formally resigned as MP for Mid-Ulster.
"What we need to see now is the writ being moved for a by-election to allow the people of Mid-Ulster to have their say, " the spokesperson added.
Two of the four candidates in next week's Mid- Ulster by-election declined to take part in the only televised debate of the campaign to succeed Martin McGuinness as MP.
The constituency of mid-Ulster has a sizeable nationalist majority.
But the campaign team for the agreed unionist candidate Nigel Lutton declined the invitation, explaining that with only a few days left until polling, Mr Lutton would concentrate his efforts on canvassing in Mid-Ulster.
Following the announcement of the joint candidate on Thursday, DUP leader Peter Robinson said the decision would be "welcomed by tens of thousands of unionists in both the Mid-Ulster area and more generally throughout Northern Ireland as a common-sense response to the demands to see unionists co-operating together".
In a statement on Thursday, DUP leader and Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson said the decision would be "welcomed by tens of thousands of unionists in both the Mid-Ulster area and more generally throughout Northern Ireland as a common-sense response to the demands to see unionists co-operating together".
The two resignations follow the DUP and Ulster Unionists' decision to back an agreed candidate to contest the Mid Ulster by-election on 7 March.
The pair resigned from the UUP earlier this month after the party agreed to a single unionist candidate to contest the Mid Ulster by-election on 7 March.
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Coincidentally, on the day the writ was moved for the Mid Ulster by-election, the Northern Ireland Office published its draft bill on double jobbing and other potential changes to the political system here.
It made me wonder whether, in covering the campaign for the by-election in Mid Ulster due one week later, a reporter could get away with a piece to camera explaining that "the stakes could hardly be any lower".
And following the decision of Martin McGuinness to resign as an MP in order to avoid so-called "double-jobbing", by holding a seat in both the House of Commons and the Northern Ireland Assembly, a by-election is also expected in his Mid Ulster constituency.
Given that Mr McGuinness took more than half the Mid Ulster vote in 2010, his successor as Sinn Fein candidate, Francie Molloy, is the clear front-runner.
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