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Hospital Wards: Gender

Volume 471: debated on Thursday 31 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many complaints his Department received on mixed-sex accommodation in hospitals in each of the last 12 months. (180858)

During 2007 the Department received a total of 36 complaints related to mixed sex accommodation, through the central correspondence system. The monthly breakdown is shown in the table.

The Department does not, as a rule, investigate individual complaints; rather it advises correspondents to follow the national health service complaints procedure. This directs complainants to local organisations to register and pursue the complaints.

NHS estates/mixed sex wards—monthly stats

Number

January 2007

6

February 2007

4

March 2007

4

April 2007

3

May 2007

4

June 2007

0

July 2007

4

August 2007

2

September 2007

2

October 2007

5

November 2007

1

December 2007

1

Total

36