Hospital Wards: Gender

(asked on 7th September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made as to whether Annex B in NHS England's Delivering same sex accommodation guidance is consistent with the aim to provide of single sex wards by NHS Trusts.


Answered by
Lord Kamall Portrait
Lord Kamall
This question was answered on 29th September 2021

No assessment has been made of the process used by National Health Service trusts for arranging these facilities nor the provision of single sex wards.

We expect all NHS trusts to follow all aspects of NHS England and NHS Improvement’s guidance Delivering same-sex accommodation, which sets out the small number of clinical circumstances where mixed-sex accommodation can be justified and also allows, in Annex B, for people to be allocated to wards according to their presentation, such as their preferred dress and pronouns . A copy of the guidance is attached. NHS England and NHS Improvement are currently reviewing this guidance, including whether the Annex is consistent with the provision of single sex wards.

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