The recent admission that the Government has failed in its promise (not another broken promise surely?) to eliminate single sex wards, shows the mess this government is in despite all its extra taxes thrown at the NHS. It is also a clear failure to treat men and women in hospital with the dignity they deserve.
Currently 4 in every 5 hospitals do not segregate men and women. The story was covered here:- (link), (link), (link) and (link).
What needs to be remembered, but is often forgotten, is that there is as much indiginity for an ill man to be in a ward with ill women, as well as the other way round.
Often, this sad issue is looked at from the usual one-eyed, one-sided perspective. That is, it is terrible and undignified for ill women to be in wards with ill men. Of course it is, but also it has to be remembered that it works the other way round as well.
This should be one of the top items in the in-tray for any Minister for Men.
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