The HSE has stopped testing patients for Covid-19 before they are discharged from hospital to nursing homes.
The failure to test patients at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis was heavily criticised by Nursing Homes Ireland, which claimed that the transfer of patients to nursing homes was a “contributory factor” to the Covid-19 clusters in some of the facilities.
In a statement the HSE said that a previous requirement for testing had been...
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