Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)

The Health Service Executive recently published Review of Deaths at Leas Cross Nursing Home 2002-2005 that was commissioned by the HSE and written by Professor Des O'Neill. Separately, the HSE's complaints review group for Dublin north-east has written a report for HSE management on foot of complaints received from concerned families of patients at Leas Cross since May 2005. That report has not been published as it relates to individual complaints received.

The HSE working group on nursing home inspections completed an interim report in July this year. Although it has been referred to in this House and more widely, the HSE has not published this report as it considers it to be an internal document. Other reports prepared for the HSE are the normal inspection reports on individual nursing homes, and these are progressively being made available on the HSE website.

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