Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they determine which hospital accommodation should be designated as same-sex accommodation.

All hospital accommodation should be designated same-sex. The National Health Service constitution states that patients admitted to hospital will not have to share sleeping accommodation with patients of the opposite sex, except where appropriate.

Providers of NHS funded care are expected to eliminate mixed sex accommodation except where it is in the best overall interest of the patient involved, or reflects their personal choice.