Damning reports on nursing home care

INADEQUATE care of residents and insufficient knowledge about sores and wounds were uncovered at one nursing home in the latest batch of published inspection reports.

The damning report on Creevelea Nursing Home, Laytown, Co Meath, also found one radiator’s temperature was 89C, leaving patients at risk of burns and scalding. A trawl through reports on homes from the final counties inspected, by the Irish Examiner, uncovers a range of concerns about care breaches.

The inspections in Cavan, Laois, Leitrim, Louth, Meath, and Monaghan only became available on the Health Service Executive’s website in recent weeks.