The report into the operation of Leas Cross Nursing Home has found that the principal cause for the decline in care was a lack of staff, considering the number of residents at the North county Dublin facility.

THE shocking conditions revealed at the Leas Cross nursing home some years ago shocked the whole country and began a process that led to yesterday’s announcement of new standards for nursing homes.

A WRECKING ball is set to banish the physical legacy of a nursing home that closed after an undercover TV programme exposed maltreatment of its elderly residents.

THE controversial Leas Cross nursing home has reopened after agreeing changed standards and refurbishments with health inspectors.

The man who wrote the damning report into Leas Cross nursing home says building smaller facilities may be the best way to ensure the highest standard of care.

CONCERNS about deteriorating conditions at the Leas Cross Nursing Home were raised with health authorities two years before the scandal broke, according to the report into the deaths of 105 residents at the centre.

An unpublished report into Leas Cross nursing home details a catalogue of systematic institutional abuse, the Dáil heard tonight.

It is more than a year since an RTÉ Prime Time Special highlighted appalling scenes of neglect and abuse at the Leas Cross Nursing Home in Swords, County Dublin.

An independent report on Leas Cross nursing home will not be made public until those named in it have the right to reply, it emerged tonight.

A MAJOR drive is to be launched by the State to keep more elderly people out of nursing homes.

Tough legislation will ensure no-one will make money by exploiting older people living in private nursing homes, the Tánaiste warned today.

An independent review of all deaths at the Leas Cross nursing home since 2002 has been initiated.

A psychologist said today he was targeted maliciously after he raised concerns about the transfer of a patient who later died at the Leas Cross Nursing Home in Dublin.

The Health Service Executive issued a statement this evening in a bid to reassure residents at Leas Cross Nursing Home, which is due to close.

The Health Services Executive is to investigate all deaths of patients at the controversial Leas Cross Nursing home in Dublin, it emerged today.

The Health Service Executive is making alternative arrangements to move some of its public patients placed in the Leas Cross Nursing home in north county Dublin.

THE recent RTÉ Prime Time programme on the Leas Cross Nursing Home was extremely disturbing.

NURSING home care standards are totally inadequate, too vague and open to interpretation, the Irish Nursing Homes Organisation (INHO) has argued.

THE nursing home where an elderly woman developed bed sores from which she subsequently died is to refer all future bed sore cases to accident and emergency.