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Health Budget 2024: Government misjudgment will intensify crisis in healthcare  11th October 2023: Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) has stated Budget...

Health Minister’s spend appraisal must be reflected for nursing home care 6th October 2023: The Minister for Health’s warnings that...

NHI calls for immediate linkage between population and long-term healthcare as applied to politics 21st September 2023: Nursing Homes Ireland...

We’re delighted to bring to you a very special performance from Niamh Kavanagh and Mobile Music Machine, recorded especially for...

Taking place today, Thursday 24th August at 11am, our webinar The Role of Music in Nursing Homes will discuss how...

Musician, songwriter, performer, recording artist, storyteller, poet and dreamer. Nursing home residents are being treated to very special, exclusive, performances...

Sadhbh is a songwriter, musician and arts-in-health practitioner. As a solo artist she has released three albums (under the name...

We are delighted to bring to you this very special and unique performance to kick-start our Music Speaks Nursing Homes...

Nursing Home Residents to perform for Nursing Homes Week 2023 Music Speaks – a unique music festival for nursing home residents...

Unmissable Melodies Music & Health Ireland Celebrates Nursing Homes Week with Tea Chats and Tunes Session We’re delighted to announce...

34 nursing home closures to date – 1000 beds lost in three years 31st July 2023:  More nursing home closures...

About Nursing Homes Week Nursing Homes Week is Ireland’s national celebration of nursing home care. Celebrating its tenth anniversary in...

NHI welcomes Government acceptance of crisis and now calls for urgent action to address it Tuesday 27 June 2023: Nursing Home...

Click to read press release: PwC report reveals funding crisis in nursing home sector Download: Challenges for Nursing Homes in...

31 nursing homes and 915 beds have closed in the last three years 36% increase in the operational cost of care...

15th May 2023: The artistic, creative potential and talents of nursing home residents are being celebrated in communities across Ireland this coming...

11th May 2023: Comment from Nursing Homes Ireland CEO Tadhg Daly on The Irish Times report today, Resident’s concern as nursing home operator quits Fair...

Average €744 more payable to HSE residents under Fair Deal as cost of care crisis persists for private and voluntary...

The Five Nations Care Forum met this week in Belfast. Bringing together representatives of care providers from Scotland, Wales, Northern...

NHI welcomes commencement of Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015 25th April 2023: Nursing Homes Ireland welcomes full commencement of...

Age & Opportunity and Nursing Homes Ireland are delighted to announce three award recipients for this year’s National Arts in...

13th February 2023: The Fair Deal pricing mechanism is not fit for purpose. Successive reports going back over a decade...

10th February 2023: Regional Group TDs met with voluntary and private nursing home representatives to discuss the struggle to stay...

We’re delighted to announce the National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award, in partnership with Age & Opportunity is returning...

10th January 2023: A Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) survey has confirmed approximately 70% of the country’s 440 private and voluntary...

4th January 2023: Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) is taking opportunity to remind and urge people visiting nursing homes to adhere to public...

21st December 2022: Nursing Homes Ireland is urging continued vigilance within nursing home settings as concerns present regarding the increased prevalence...

4th December 2022: Nursing home operators from across Ireland have signed an open letter to An Taoiseach calling for immediate...

2nd December 2022: Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) has again urged the Government to heed the repeated warning emanating from the...

Nursing Homes Ireland Says Minister Butler Needs to Correct Comments 9th November 2022: Nursing Homes Ireland has said Minister for Older People...

NHI to host EGM with cost crisis not addressed by Government 7th November 2022: Nursing Homes Ireland is to host an...

4th October 2022: Commenting on 600+ people waiting on a hospital bed, Nursing Homes Ireland CEO Tadhg Daly states: “It is...

11th October 2022: Over 2,000 letters from private and voluntary nursing home staff across the country are being delivered to the...

Eight months since promise made to pay €1,000 19th September 2022: Nursing Homes Ireland and the Alliance of Healthcare Assistants...

Intervention is required to prevent the collapse of social care from rising energy costs. The Five Nations Care Forum, which...

Findings of report also reveal: Donegal has lowest fair deal rate – up to €859,040 less than Dublin per annum...

As part of Nursing Homes Week 2022 celebrations, we are delighted to announce that Homecare Medical are offering NHI Members...

11th August 2022: Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) has called on the Government to act urgently in addressing the regulator HIQA’s...

  Following a two-year absence due to Covid19, Nursing Homes Week returns to communities across Ireland. Nursing homes in our...

NHI has partnered with ALONE, the national charity supporting older people, to offer free Digital Champion workshops for nursing home...

27th May 2022: Tadhg Daly, NHI CEO comments: “Five months on from its announcement, confusion and unwarranted delay still presents...

“When we first met back in February to brainstorm ideas to enter the National Arts in the Nursing Homes Day...

19th May 2022: The artistic and creative talents of hundreds of nursing home residents across the country will be celebrated through the...

13th May 2022: A new and innovative apprenticeship programme that will advance the role of healthcare assistant for care of...

Innovative apprenticeship programme for healthcare assistants to be launched by Minister Harris 12th May 2022: A new and innovative apprenticeship...

6th April 2022: Nursing Homes Ireland has welcomed NIAC recommendation for rollout of a second booster vaccination for persons aged...

16th March 2022: Reflections is a very special broadcast featuring nursing home residents and staff that will air this coming...

25th February 2022: Nursing Homes Ireland is encouraging all nursing home visitors to wear facemasks against the backdrop of a...

One in five (19%) directors of nursing in Irish residential care homes are actively planning to leave their posts while...

1st February 2022: Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) welcomes revised visitation guidance published by the HPSC / HSE to further ease...