New figures out today show a wide discrepancy between the cost of mantaining a patient in a nursing home under the Fair Deal scheme
The HSE released the figures which show the average fee payable per patient per week in the two HSE run Nursing Homes in County Wexford is 1thousand 530 euro
This compares to 883 euro the average payment per patient per week in the fourteen private and voluntary run nursing homes in County Wexford
Tadhg Daly spokesman for Nursing Homes Ireland says this is a situation that can’t continue and calls for greater transparency in the pricing structure