An 80-year-old deaf man was treated as if he had dementia by nurses because no-one had written down he had hearing problems, a health watchdog has found.
Staff at Abergavenny’s Nevill Hall Hospital also failed to tell him that he may have developed cancer and fitted a catheter when he was not incontinent.
The acting public services ombudsman upheld the complaint by the man’s widow that her husband’s care was compromised.
Aneurin Bevan Health Board apologised.
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