End of mixed wards at Winchester's Royal Hampshire County Hospital (From Daily Echo)
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End of mixed wards at Winchester's Royal Hampshire County Hospital
11:26am Monday 29th June 2009 in
HEALTH chiefs are spending £232,000 so patients at a Winchester hospital do not have to be treated on mixed gender wards.
It comes after the Royal Hampshire County Hospital was named among Britain’s worst for making men and women share wards and bathrooms.
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust is spending the extra Government cash to give patients more privacy.
A survey last year found that 60 per cent of Winchester patients were placed on mixed gender wards or had to share bathrooms at some point.
Health chiefs are now drawing up plans to segregate the hospital’s emergency medical unit, along with the intensive care, high dependency and coronary care units.
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