Mental Health Services: Hospital Wards

(asked on 28th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health dormitory wards were operational and providing patient care in the NHS at the end of May 2021.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 6th July 2021

At the end of May 2021 there were 1,135 beds in dormitory settings, in shared rooms within otherwise single-bedded wards and wholly dormitory-based wards. We are investing over £400 million to improve mental health facilities by eradicating dormitories and giving patients the privacy of their own bedroom and an en-suite bathroom.

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