Nursing home stopped from charging residents for upkeep

The State’s health services watchdog had to stop some private nursing homes from charging residents additional fees to keep their facilities up to standard, a Dáil committee was told.

Officials from the Health Information and Quality Authority appeared for the first time before the Public Accounts Committee yesterday.

Fianna Fáil TD Bobby Aylward said there had been a lot of publicity about extra charges being imposed by nursing homes and he asked if Hiqa monitored them.