Nursing home ownership moves represent major risk to future survival of sector, report finds
Hiqa says ‘systemic risk’ to sector should be addressed as part of an overall strategy for social care in Ireland
Hiqa says ‘systemic risk’ to sector should be addressed as part of an overall strategy for social care in Ireland
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said the healthcare regulator will determine whether a second emergency department is needed following the death at UHL
Staff member at Ability West centre in Co Galway had to pay for meals out of their own pocket
Hiqa to cancel Aperee Living Camp’s registration over concerns about its governance and management
High-quality information ‘more important than ever’, says Stephen Donnelly
Alternative phone number to the 112/999 service would seek to reduce pressure on the national emergency phone line
Some residents at direct-provision centre ‘could not avail’ of more appropriate accommodation and were ‘anxious’, says inspection report
Significant non-compliance with standards relating to good governance, workforce, and risk management, Hiqa finds
Health authority carried out inspections at International Protection Accommodation Services centres across the country
Some regulatory bodies believe their underpinning legislation has fallen behind advances and developments in the sectors they oversee
Authority found ‘multiple risks existed’ at the Hibernian Hotel in Abbeyleix after inspections earlier this year
Another week, another damning report on the overcrowded Limerick hospital
Hiqa finds carers were approved on emergency basis without necessary mandatory training in fostering and in one case Garda vetting had not been completed
Residents feel ‘unsafe’ and some staff are not Garda vetted, Hiqa inspections of accommodation find
Estimated 350,000 patients believed to have long Covid, representative group says
Doctors check all newborns but these clinical examinations will miss some
Staff describe giving care as ‘firefighting’ due to increase in frequency and nature of serious incidents at centre
Health and safety watchdog publishes 22 inspection reports on disability services
Nursing home houses 35 residents who will have to find alternative accommodation, while 46 staff will be made redundant
Investment firms have been caught out by rising costs and higher interest rates
Hiqa criticises policy of residents in disability centre having to cover staff wages to take short holiday
State’s healthcare regulator criticised serious staffing shortages in Castlebridge Manor nursing home
Interim findings into the use of unauthorised springs in operations will be made by end of year, watchdog says
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Hiqa says it has ‘serious concerns about the governance and management’ of Aperee Living in Callan
Hotels and B&Bs are not suitable places for children to grow up, Ombudsman for Children says and calls for move away from emergency responses
Residents were allocated showers on certain days and left facing a television that was not turned on, inspectors found
Health watchdog will also carry out wider review of paediatric orthopaedic surgery following recent controversy
Inspection finds residents’ funds inappropriately used to cover running costs of nursing home
Aperee Living in Ballygunner taken over by HSE due to ‘serious concerns about care and welfare of residents’
The authority expresses concern for management of residents’ money at six Aperee Living centres
Health Information and Quality Authority review finds non-compliance in 10 facilities from 27 inspected
Memorandum of understanding formalises current and future co-operation between organisations
Staffing pressures pose ‘risk’ to safety of service for separated minors from Ukraine in State care
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