Nursing home residents in urgent need of protections

Phelim Quinn, chief executive of Hiqa, told the Oireachtas Health Committee that reform cannot wait. Picture:Gareth Chaney/Collins

Urgent improvements are needed to better protect people living in nursing homes and other residential settings, the Oireachtas Health Committee heard on Tuesday.

The committee also heard long-awaited legislation to introduce statutory homecare is now progressing, and the HSE is piloting a Home First programme.