Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Single sex wards - backtracking by Government
Labour has admitted it had abandoned its historic commitment to eliminate mixed-sex wards from NHS hospitals. Health minister Lord Darzi of Denham told the House of Lords that the key manifesto pledge repeated in 1997 and 2001 was "an aspiration that cannot be met".
This is an issue that Cllr.John Beanse, Waltham Forest's Vice-Chair of Health Scrutiny, (Hale End & Highams Park ward) has raised repeatedly, including at Board meetings of Whipps Cross Hospital. He said: "Now the talk is of single sex bays within mixed sex wards. This has to be a minimum requirement. It is certainly not what we were originally led to believe was the policy." [Telegraph]
This is an issue that Cllr.John Beanse, Waltham Forest's Vice-Chair of Health Scrutiny, (Hale End & Highams Park ward) has raised repeatedly, including at Board meetings of Whipps Cross Hospital. He said: "Now the talk is of single sex bays within mixed sex wards. This has to be a minimum requirement. It is certainly not what we were originally led to believe was the policy." [Telegraph]
# posted by John Beanse @ 8:29 AM 
