Number of patients forced to endure mixed sex wards rises 50 per cent The number of patients forced to endure mixed-sex wards has risen by 50 per cent in a year, despite Government manifesto pledges to end the practice, official statistics show.
Hospitals breached rules which are supposed to put men and women on separate wards on 1,750 occasions in January and February - compared to 1,164 breaches in the same period last year.
The official figures follow manifesto pledges in 2010 and 2015 which pledged to eliminate the practice.
Labour accused ministers of presiding over a “catastrophic collapse” of patient standards.
The statistics suggest record levels of hospital crowding in recent months have forced hospitals to place men and women in beds near each other. The Daily Telegraph
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Hospitals breached rules which are supposed to put men and women on separate wards on 1,750 occasions in January and February - compared to 1,164 breaches in the same period last year.
The official figures follow manifesto pledges in 2010 and 2015 which pledged to eliminate the practice.
Labour accused ministers of presiding over a “catastrophic collapse” of patient standards.
The statistics suggest record levels of hospital crowding in recent months have forced hospitals to place men and women in beds near each other. The Daily Telegraph
See also:
- Manifesto vows broken again and again as numbers surge The Daily Mail
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