Enter email address Sign Up "We would expect the RQIA to have conducted monthly visits to Clifton throughout 2020 to ensure the residents were all safe. "This has been going on for seven years now without any sustained improvement. "This means our system of regulation is not fit for purpose. We need urgent change." Clifton Nursing Home has repeatedly appeared in news headlines over the years for a litany of distressing failings. Health inspectors raised concerns about infection control failings in the 12 months leading up the pandemic, while the Belfast Trust had been supporting the home for 18 months. The RQIA then uncovered scenes of chaos inside the facility during inspections on May 15 and 21 last year.