One in ten still has to share mixed-sex ward - Daily Mail 5th December 2007

More than one in ten patients booked in for hospital treatment still have to stay on mixed-sex wards. Last year, thousands more had to share bathroom or shower facilities with members of the opposite sex, says a "report card" for the NHS. Ten years after Labour pledged to phase out mixed- sex wards, just under a third of emergency patients had to share a sleeping area on admission.

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