Only a third of disability homes get Hiqa OK

The State’s health services watchdog has found that just over a third of residential centres for people with a disability inspected recently offer a good quality of life in safe surroundings.

The Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) published 20 reports on residential services for people with disabilities and issues were raised in most of them.

Only seven of the inspections (35%) found that, in general, the provider was ensuring residents had a good quality of life and were safe.