# nursing-homes - Monday 3 June, 2013
Members of Nursing Homes Ireland will lobby TDs, senators and councillors to support the immediate establishment of a forum to discuss challenges in residential care.
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# nursing-homes - Thursday 10 January, 2013
The plan includes an additional cut to primary care costs of €60 million, staff reductions of 4,000 and a promise to reduce waiting times.
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# nursing-homes - Thursday 23 August, 2012
Inspections have revealed concerns over bathing residents and food portions, as well as serious levels of understaffing.
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# nursing-homes - Tuesday 21 August, 2012
The charity, which supports older people, made the comments following the taking over of a private Galway nursing home by the HSE.
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# nursing-homes - Monday 23 April, 2012
The Government is also examining accommodation options as an alternative to nursing homes.
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# nursing-homes - Thursday 5 April, 2012
Medical Independent reveals that funding for scheme to purchase private nursing home beds has been delayed.
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# nursing-homes - Thursday 26 January, 2012
Cathal Magee will appear before an Oireachtas committee today – with questions likely to focus on nursing home care.
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# nursing-homes - Saturday 24 December, 2011
In today’s Fix: Ireland’s first skyscraper to be demolished, words that annoyed you most in 2011 and the best dance video you will ever see.
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Reports that ten publicly-run community nursing homes will be shut next year have been met with criticism by the Opposition party.
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# nursing-homes - Friday 2 December, 2011
Nine things to know by 9am: All eyes on Merkel over EU’s future, BoI hits the stress-test target, more pressure on Iran – and is Joxer heading to Kiev or Warsaw?
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# nursing-homes - Wednesday 23 November, 2011
Health Minister Dr James Reilly has come under fire from patients’ associations, the Opposition and medical groups for considering an annual €50 medical card charge.
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# nursing-homes - Thursday 1 September, 2011
Residents of the now-closed Avondale Nursing Home in Kilkenny were without essentials including milk and bread.
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# nursing-homes - Thursday 9 June, 2011
The health minister says that an increase in the length of nursing home stays needs to be investigated further. The scheme was suspended last month due to a €100m shortfall in funds.
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# nursing-homes - Thursday 19 May, 2011
The Fair Deal nursing home scheme has already run out of funding for this year and can’t accommodate any new people who need financial assistant to cover the costs of that care.
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# nursing-homes - Wednesday 6 April, 2011
Cross-border research team uncovers potentially inappropriate prescribing processes.
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# nursing-homes - Wednesday 10 November, 2010
Nine things you need to know by 9am: Gardai can’t get their hands on passwords to access Anglo-Irish Bank documents;accounting firm probe emails which ‘rated’ female employees on looks; a college dropout has won the world’s biggest prize in poker.
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