Inspections reveal nursing home failures

THE latest batch of nursing home inspections reveal a litany of substandard conditions and care at a number of facilities.

One report on the Moyne nursing home, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, detailed how when inspectors arrived a disturbed and dazed female patient was found wandering alone in the home’s car park.

The disturbing finding emerged as another 20 inspections of homes were released on the internet by the Health Service Executive over the last week. The inspections took place in recent months.