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Exploring the causes of adverse events in NHS hospital practice -
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Hospitals in England are failing to follow guidance for tuberculosis infection control?results of a … -
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NHS failing on mixed-sex wards

Last Updated: 2007-05-10 11:30:11 -0400 (Reuters Health)

LONDON - More than two dozen hospitals are still failing to provide single-sex wards, a report on Thursday showed.

The Department of Health had claimed in 2004 that 99 percent of National Health System (NHS) trusts were providing single-sex sleeping accommodation on non-emergency wards. But patient feedback suggests otherwise. Many complain of real distress at a lack of privacy and dignity. A subsequent review by strategic health authorities found 28 NHS trusts were still finding it difficult to hit government targets.

The reduction in the number of mixed-sex wards was now a core priority for the NHS this coming year, it said.

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Chief Nursing Officer Christine Beasley set out practical advice for the struggling hospital trusts in her report "Privacy and Dignity".

Guidance includes better hospital accommodation layout, the setting and publishing of local standards and the publication of local targets.

"Single-sex accommodation is a core commitment in the NHS," she said. "It should be the norm in all elective care, when patients are pre-booked in for hospital treatment, and it remains the ideal for when treatment is unscheduled.

"I am asking the NHS to do more to ensure that when there is no choice but to mix patients, that more safeguards are taken to ensure that privacy is maintained."

Among the 28 trusts are Brighton and Sussex University, Hereford, Hull and East Yorkshire, Southampton and the Royal Wolverhampton.

Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt said in a statement: "This report shows there is clearly still more work for the NHS to do to meet our commitment to eliminate mixed sex accommodation wherever possible."

Single-sex wards can include separate bays or rooms, with their own toilet facilities.

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