Our 8 bedded ward has just been turned into a single sex compliant ward
- happy to talk through the problems associated with it and how we did
it.
Sue Robinson
Addenbrookes
01223 217031
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Subject: Single-sex accommodation
The need for sex-segregated accommodation is to be extended to our obs
ward - segregated bed areas as well as single sex toilet and bathrooms.
There is a proposed financial penalty for failing to comply which will
not just apply to the "one man in a female bay" but to all patients in a
bay which becomes mixed sex.
We currently have a mixed-sex area containing 6 beds. Patients are
admitted under A+E are for:
1) head injury not requiring neurosurgery
2) rapid rule-out for low-risk chest pain ?ACS
3) post procedural sedation
4) unable to be discharged due to alcohol intoxication
5) injured and deeding rapid-response "social" input
Other specialty patients are frequently housed in this area as well.
All this is, of course, aside from the problem that patients admitted
are not 50:50 M:F!
Have other departments met the demand for single-sex accommodation? A
new-build is out of the question for us! Would any of you be prepared to
share plans/photos of your layouts?
Thanks
Matt Heywood
Consultant in EM
Macclesfield
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