Nursing home criticised after elderly woman's death

A nursing home has been criticised after the death of an elderly woman who’d been under its care, an inquest in Coleraine heard today.

The Department of Health’s Registration and Inspection Unit was called in to carry out a formal investigation following complaints by the family of Mrs Myrtle Carr, aged 92, who died at the Cromore Nursing Home in Portstewart in February last year, just over a month after she was found by night shift staff lying on the floor beside her bed.