We remain committed to limit mixed sex areas to essential high care areas only, such as critical care. Even in these areas there are strict guidelines to ensure that privacy and dignity are maintained for patients.
For a hospital to say that it has same-sex accommodation, it must provide sleeping areas and toilet and washing facilities that are for men or women only. This will mean different things in different hospitals. You could be:
Toilet and washing facilities should be easy to get to, not a long way from your bed. You shouldn’t have to go through accommodation or toilet, or washing facilities used by the opposite sex, to get to your own.
Our commitment to privacy and dignity is embodied in a ward level action plan, key elements of which are: