A ROYAL Gwent Hospital orthopaedic ward is leading a Wales-wide project designed to reduce anxiety and highlight early mental health problems in elderly patients. Often on ward C7 East, 60 per cent of patients can be over 80 years old, and subtle changes …

Targeted spot checks of hospitals in Wales to ensure dignity of care for older people are being introduced. It follows a report by the older people’s commissioner for …

Targeted spot checks of hospitals in Wales to ensure dignity of care for older people are being introduced. It follows a report by the older people’s commissioner for Wales, Ruth Marks, which said some care was “shamefully inadequate”. Recommendations …

Peter Tyndall has added his voice to that of the older people’s commissioner for Wales

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A report criticising the care of elderly hospital patients in Wales is a serious issue, First Minister Carwyn Jones has admitted. Yesterday, a senior official from a public watchdog added his voice to concerns that some pensioners in the Welsh NHS are …

Elderly patients are being humiliated and their human rights violated on a regular basis in Welsh NHS hospitals, Wales’ Older People’s Commissioner Ruth Marks have said in “The Dignified Care?” report released earlier this week. Her concerns of privacy …

Her concerns of privacy violations and the poor lack of care was echoed by Public Services Ombudsman Peter Tyndall yesterday who claimed there is a culture of neglect in Wales NHS towards elderly care. The Assembly Government defended …