A High Court judge has urged the HSE to reconsider its refusal to fund a specially designed home care package to provide future care for a woman in a vegetative state for more than ten years.

It comes with the kind of mod-cons most would associate more with a family home than a community nursing unit, but then innovation is the byword for Cork’s newest residential care facility.

ONE of the country’s first new community nursing units (CNUs), which are designed to ease pressure on acute hospital beds, will be run by the private sector.