Nursing home reform ‘vital’

TWO groups that lobby for vulnerable people yesterday called for major reform of the nursing home inspection system.

The Leas Cross nursing home scandal “could be happening” in other areas in the absence of national standards, People with Disabilities in Ireland warned.

And Age Action Ireland said urgent publication of Professor Des O’Neill’s independent report on Leas Cross - the now-closed private nursing home - was “vital”. Prof O’Neill focused on more than 90 deaths of residents in the home between 2002 and 2005.