Nursing home reports - Failures must be tackled with urgency

A LOOK through the latest batch of inspection reports of nursing homes reveals an appalling list of failures.

Fri, 07 Sep, 2007 - 01:00
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Elderly patients are still being kept in atrocious conditions.

One woman complained her mother was only allowed to use a commode twice a week by staff in a Co Meath facility due to the additional workload of hoisting the inmate onto the device.

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