Nursing homes ‘yet to see benefits’ of commitments on tests

Nursing homes “have yet to see the benefits” of commitments made regarding Covid-19 testing and the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE), according to the representative body for the sector.

Tadhg Daly, chief executive of Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI), which represents 390 of Ireland’s 440 such facilities, said that some workers in Irish nursing homes have been waiting for test results for 20 days, a pattern replicated across the country as the HSE struggles with a testing backlog of 14,500 people.