‘Failure to care for vulnerable people’

THE long-awaited Leas Cross nursing home report details how the home was deficient at many levels, including having “inadequate numbers of inadequately trained staff”.

While senior health board management did not appear to give “due weight” to written concerns by health workers, noted author Prof Des O’Neill in his draft report, questions remain over staff actions at the home.

Medical letters accompanied patients coming from hospitals or elsewhere when they arrived at Leas Cross’s door. However, there was “little evidence of any structured care planning” when it came to forms during the investigation into the 105 deaths at the Swords facility.