Madam, – I refer to the article by Fiona Gartland, (“Publication of nursing home inquiries urged”, August 5th).
It is truly disappointing that nursing home standards are still not what they should be after the Leas Cross events. I understand the new nursing home inspection regime by HIQA commenced on July 1st.
To give the residents of nursing homes and their families some confidence, I would suggest that HIQA starts its nursing home inspections by choosing the nursing homes that the HSE has investigated and any other nursing home that has had a negative or less than 100 per cent HSE inspection report in that last year. – Yours, etc,