Residents at Waterford nursing home woken by staff at 6am

A nursing home has been strongly criticised after inspectors found some residents, who had been sedated the night before, were being woken up and dressed from as early as 6am.

The inspection, carried out by health watchdog Hiqa, found major non-compliance in four of the six categories reviewed at the Waterford Nursing Home on the Dunmore road.

The report, following the unannounced one day inspection, outlined how the Health Information and Quality Authority had received two separate concerns in relation to potential issues of safeguarding vulnerable adults in the centre.