Mixed-sex NHS wards
Mar. 17th, 2017 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcApparently we are not meant to have patients stay overnight in mixed-sex wards in British hospitals. Probably due to a lack of vacant beds this rule turns out to have been fairly commonly violated.
I am not sure what the fuss is about. If private things have to be done then the curtain can be drawn around each bed. Men and women generally have a good idea what each other look like and, given diversity of both sexual orientation and gender identity, I doubt that being in a same-sex ward much protects against whatever it is that people are worried about.
The National Health Service's chronic underresourcing and the lack of social care in the community would seem to me to put this mixed-ward issue far down the list of things to which to consider paying any attention.
I am not sure what the fuss is about. If private things have to be done then the curtain can be drawn around each bed. Men and women generally have a good idea what each other look like and, given diversity of both sexual orientation and gender identity, I doubt that being in a same-sex ward much protects against whatever it is that people are worried about.
The National Health Service's chronic underresourcing and the lack of social care in the community would seem to me to put this mixed-ward issue far down the list of things to which to consider paying any attention.
