The senior HSE figure said feedback they were receiving was the resources required to fight outbreaks were “very considerable”. Agency staff were only being supplied to nursing homes “at double cost where available at all”, he said.
The “absence of a co-ordinated approach” between the HSE and private nursing homes would have “most serious consequences”, he told department officials. In an April 24th email, one nursing home said staff shortages had reached a “critical” point where a nurse had to offer to sleep in the facility and be woken if needed, to cover a shortage one night.
“I will not neglect the residents and if we do not get staff I will be asking you to find alternative accommodation for them,” the provider said.
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