23/10/2012

Leas Cross Nursing Home Director Guilty Of Misconduct

An Bord Altranais has found the former Director of Nursing at the Leas Cross nursing home guilty of professional misconduct.

ráinne Paula Conway has been removed from the nursing register following a hearing of the Nursing board's Fitness to Practise Committee which found she failed to ensure residents at Leas Cross received adequate care.

The nursing home was the subject of a 2005 Prime Time Investigates programme, which aired allegations of the mistreatment of residents.

The home was subsequently closed.

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