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| Relatives take residential care home petition to Stormont | Relatives take residential care home petition to Stormont |
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| Elderly residents from Northern Ireland's care homes are at Stormont to call for an end to the closure of NHS residential homes. | |
| In April, it was announced that 18 homes would close, affecting more than 300 people. | In April, it was announced that 18 homes would close, affecting more than 300 people. |
| Health Minister Edwin Poots later told health trusts to drop their care homes closure policy. | Health Minister Edwin Poots later told health trusts to drop their care homes closure policy. |
| But health union, Unison, warned those homes could still close "by stealth". | But health union, Unison, warned those homes could still close "by stealth". |
| Patricia McKeown of Unison said: "People do not recognise the health minister made a public reversal on home closures but two sentences later, he closed the doors and that means they are not seeing new admissions and those homes will close by stealth," she said. | Patricia McKeown of Unison said: "People do not recognise the health minister made a public reversal on home closures but two sentences later, he closed the doors and that means they are not seeing new admissions and those homes will close by stealth," she said. |
| "We want to get a new decision from the minister to reopen and reinvest in something which is a really splendid part of the NHS." | "We want to get a new decision from the minister to reopen and reinvest in something which is a really splendid part of the NHS." |