Guidance issued to the national health service requires the provision of single sex accommodation, which can take a number of forms. NHS trusts may provide single rooms, single sex bays within a mixed ward, single-sex wards or combinations of these types. We do not collect information on the number of trusts who have mixed sex wards per se.
The NHS Operating Framework for 2008-09 includes a requirement for primary care trusts to agree, publish and implement stretching local plans for improvement, with identified time scales and monitoring mechanisms. The NHS Institute for Improvement and Innovation published “Privacy and Dignity—the elimination of mixed sex accommodation. Good practice guidance and self assessment checklist”, in December 2007 to support the NHS in delivering this.
(2) how many mixed sex wards there are in (a) England and (b) Greater London, broken down by London borough.
Single-sex accommodation should be the norm for elective care, and remains the ideal for all admissions. We have made this clear in this year’s operating framework.
Guidance issued to the national health service requires the provision of single sex accommodation, which can take a number of forms. NHS trusts may provide single rooms, single-sex bays within a mixed ward, single-sex wards or combinations of these types. We do not collect information on the number of trusts who have mixed sex wards per se.
The NHS Operating Framework for 2008-09 includes a requirement for primary care trusts to agree, publish and implement stretching local plans for improvement, with identified timescales and monitoring mechanisms.