Health minister backs hospital plans to move patients to first available nursing home beds

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said it was “absolutely the right thing to do” to move a patient who had been medically discharged to a clinically appropriate nursing home. Photo: Sasko Lazarov / © RollingNews.ie

The health minister has backed plans by the HSE to move patients from hospitals to the first available nursing home bed.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has supports the plans for patients who have been medically discharged to be moved to the first available nursing home bed even if it is in a location miles away from family and friends.