Hospital spot checks in Wales, according to reports is being introduced, to ensure proper care for elderly people, as the older people's commissioner for Wales, Ruth Marks, expressed that some care facilities are "shamefully inadequate".

The report made in April, titled Dignified Care, examined if older people in NHS hospitals in Wales got care in a ‘dignified and respectful’ manner.

It was discovered that some patients had been badly treated and humiliated by their experiences, which resulted to Ms Marks’ request for "fundamental change” in the area.

However, public services’ ombudsman Peter Tyndall expressed that health-related complaints had surged up by nearly 70% over the past five years.

Hence, the commissioner’s report was filled with series of recommendations, as well as ‘improvements in communication, discharge times, and increased privacy for patients’.

The former Health Minister, Edwina Hart, said the recommendations would be considered as part of a motive to enhance patients’ care, though its claimed that majority of people were okay with the way they were treated.

Moreover, her successor Lesley Griffiths said: “The Welsh Government would ask the NHS watchdog to introduce spot checks to ensure that dignity of care for older patients was a top priority for health boards”, as improvements are already in progress, coupled with more single-sex wards and free charge for nurses and sisters to manage their wards.