‘State regulation’ needed to ensure people are cared for at home safely

Measures are needed to ensure that people are cared for at home safely, the head of the State’s health services watchdog said yesterday.

Phelim Quinn, the chief executive of the Health Information and Quality Authority, said they wanted to ensure vulnerable people were safe and received the best possible support.

“Closely related to safeguarding is the protection of people being cared for in their own homes,” Mr Quinn told the Oireachtas Future of Healthcare Committee, yesterday.