Leas Cross fears raised two years before exposé

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.

In a draft report by Professor Des O’Neill, obtained by the Irish Examiner, the geriatric consultant said the obligatory reporting of deaths at the north Dublin home was “shambolic”.

Of particular concern, notes Prof O’Neill, was the failure of health board management to “understand the very serious nature of written concerns expressed by senior clinicians”.