Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Susan Cliffe:

A high number of notifications is not necessarily a sign of a poor service. It can be a sign of a very responsive service. What we are looking at is the content of the individual notifications. We find that those particular nursing homes report absolutely everything. If there was accidental contact between two people in a communal area, a notification would be sent in.