Health trust to boost patient ward privacy
Thursday 30th April 2009, 12:57PM BST.
An extra £655,000 is to be spent on improving single-sex accommodation at Shropshire’s two main hospitals.
The additional Government funding will be used to make improvements to bays, and toilets and bathrooms.
Bosses at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust are also looking at what other measures can be taken to safeguard the privacy and dignity of patients.
It’s not known when schemes will begin.
A trust spokesman said: “Clinicians and estates staff are currently developing plans for improvements to single sex accommodation.”
The importance of single-sex facilities is highlighted in an internal trust newsletter.
“Being with other patients of the same gender is an important component of privacy and dignity,” says the paper.
But the paper make it clear that nationally it is recognised that there some areas within a hospital where it is not possible to provide single-sex accommodation. Such areas include the intensive care, high dependency and medical assessment units.
During 2008/09 the Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal continued to meet national Government standards for single-sex accommodation.
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If they are to address dignity issues, perhaps we should look more closely at care for the elderly in our hospitals & begin there
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