Hospital Wards: Women
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of Hospital Trust permit men to be cared for on women-only wards.
Answered by Karin Smyth
It is longstanding National Health Service policy that men should not be cared for on women-only wards.
NHS organisations submit data on the number of occurrences of unjustified mixing in relation to sleeping accommodation. This data is published monthly and is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/mixed-sex-accommodation/
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