Sussex hospitals win same-sex battle (From The Argus)
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Sussex hospitals win same-sex battle
6:30pm Friday 5th October 2012 in News
Hospitals are winning the battle to keep the number of male and female patients forced to share the same ward areas to a minimum.
Trusts are fined £250 for each day they break rules that men and women should not sleep in the same bays.
However for the first time in more than a year, all three of the county’s main trusts reported no breaches in August.
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust improved on its reported six breaches in July.
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust has had no breaches for the past four months while East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has not had any breaches for the past six months.
Hospitals are expected to provide separate sleeping, bathroom and toilet facilities.
Wards do not have to be single-sex but patients should be kept in bays divided at the very least by a full-height partition.
Comments(9)
Goldenwight
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8:00am Sat 6 Oct 12
I am sure that if we looked closely (or if the Argus employed its journalistic skills and asked questions) we would see that yes, there are in fact mixed sex bays, but that this is permissible for X number of hours. If one reviewed the number of patients who were moved within 5 minutes of X hours, it would be about 96%
random digits
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9:05am Sat 6 Oct 12
If i got sick enough to need admission to a hospital, the last thing i would do is complain about the mix of male/female on the ward. What next, all male staff? All female staff? You can't be that ill if all you have to moan about is who is in the bed next to you. Put a bloody screen up if you are that delicate around other people .Or better still at home and let grateful people have the bed.
Morpheus
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9:28am Sat 6 Oct 12
Maxwell's Ghost
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10:08am Sat 6 Oct 12
I visited my grandmother in a mixed sex ward and sadly many of the elderly gentlemen also had dementia and would wander up to her bed stark naked and tried to get in the bed as he was confused and during one visit one old boy masturbated incessantly while shouting. My grandmother was very upset as we're many of the female patients.
It really was how I imagined bedlam to be. This was a disgraceful Tory policy introduced by politicians who used private healthcare and ironically had a room to themselves.
It's a bit different when you visit ITU units with mixed beds where the patients are sedated and there is one to one nursing.
random digits
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10:33am Sat 6 Oct 12
Maxwell's Ghost
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1:22pm Sat 6 Oct 12
My old mum says she lives with that every day but at least she's married to the old bugger, but she doesn't want other old men's habits in her face.... So to speak.
Pretty Vacant
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1:26pm Sat 6 Oct 12
random digits
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1:50pm Sat 6 Oct 12
Maxwell's Ghost wrote:In a utopian society i would agree, but sadly we are not. The NHS is on the road to bankruptcy and spending money on this, (whilst cutting staff, reducing beds,et al) just because it's not up to the private sector's standards-which MOST cannot afford- is not helping matters. Patient care first, fluffy pillows when we can afford it. Which sadly isn't going to be any time soon.
Random digits you must be a man. I have private healthcare as seeing the disgusting environment of men ****, coughing and wandering around with their pyjamas gaping isn't a nice sight.
My old mum says she lives with that every day but at least she's married to the old bugger, but she doesn't want other old men's habits in her face.... So to speak.
Hove Actually says...
6:42pm Fri 5 Oct 12
Sussex hospitals win same-sex battle
Is an out and out LIE and the sort of rubbish headline the Argus casually throws in for dramatic effect.
If it had said they are making progress towards eliminating it, fair enough but no, sloppy incorrect lies seem to fit better with second rate journalism