ON behalf of Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI), the representative body for the private and voluntary nursing home sector, I wish to correct a number of factual errors in your article headlined ‘Why are we abandoning the elderly’ (August 25).

ON behalf of Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) members, I would like to echo the concerns expressed by the Board of Cobh Community Hospital in your report headlined ‘Friends of Cobh hospital plead to keep it open’ (July 16).