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NHS updating guidance on single-sex hospital accommodation after EHRC release

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Whatchamacallitt · 22/05/2026 22:21

The NHS has announced it is updating it's guidance in light of the EHRC guidance being released. The new guidance will be called Privacy, dignity and safety in hospital accommodation. Here's hoping this is the beginning of the end of male patients in female hospital wards and male staff in female changing rooms and toilets.

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FarriersGirl · 23/05/2026 08:59

I've read more NHS policies than I care to count including a couple that have been updated since the SCJ. I am sure they will continue to obfuscate and use weasel words to deny women truly single sex spaces.

RogueFemale · 22/05/2026 22:35

There is no suggestion that Trusts might abandon trying to defend ongoing or upcoming tribunal discrimination cases.

Feejoah · 22/05/2026 22:34

I am in NZ. My aunt has severe, advanced dementia. She cannot remember what happened 10 minutes ago. She is currently in a mixed-sex hospital ward. There is a man in the bed across from her.

I voted "unsure" but it's probably more a "no". They will find the loopholes.

I last worked for the NHS 10 years ago and management was very, very careful to maintain single sex wards. There were periods where the female ward was full and the male only 40%, but no female bed meant no female beds. I'm not sure what that hospital is like now, but it is in a Trust with mental health hospitals, so depends if the old matron is still there. I can't see her allowing mixed wards.

RogueFemale · 22/05/2026 22:33

Whatchamacallitt · 22/05/2026 22:21

The NHS has announced it is updating it's guidance in light of the EHRC guidance being released. The new guidance will be called Privacy, dignity and safety in hospital accommodation. Here's hoping this is the beginning of the end of male patients in female hospital wards and male staff in female changing rooms and toilets.

That NHS update is a massive fluffy word salad. The regret and sadness is very quietly implicit.

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