Private nursing homes care for those most in need

ON behalf of Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI), the representative body for the private and voluntary nursing home sector, I wish to correct a number of factual errors in your article headlined ‘Why are we abandoning the elderly’ (August 25).

The claim was made by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) that private nursing homes “are in a position where they can pick and choose the nature of their patients. Will we eventually find ourselves in a position where those who need the maximum care will not have the facilities open to them?”

This is incorrect.