MANY PUBLIC care facilities will need to be upgraded or redeveloped in order to comply with new regulations for nursing homes to be published shortly.The standards, approved yesterday by the Health Information Quality Authority, will cover public facilities for older people for the first time.They are understood to set out more than 30 requirements regarding the care and welfare of residents such as mandatory levels of training for staff and individual care plans for all nursing home residents. Other requirements relate to minimum bedroom sizes, en-suite facilities and limits on numbers of patients per ward. Read more