28 staff members quit nursing home

An unsolicited tip-off led health inspectors to discover that 28 staff members had resigned from a Laois nursing home in a four-month period last year.

The latest tranche of 15 inspection reports by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) found areas of major non-compliance at four nursing homes in Laois, Kildare, Cork and Dublin.

In the case of Droimnin Nursing Home in Laois, HIQA carried out a two-day inspection of the centre following receipt of “unsolicited information of concern”.