Labour: We Did Get It Wrong On Mixed Wards

Daily Mail (January 23, 2009)

Author: James Chapman

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LABOUR has failed to get to grips with the scandal of mixed-sex wards - despite 12 years of promises, the Health Secretary has admitted.

Alan Johnson told health bosses that ministers had repeatedly 'got it wrong', a leaked memo reveals.

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Labour: We Did Get It Wrong On Mixed Wards

In a meeting last week, Mr Johnson conceded that 'sane and rational arguments about why it can't be done no longer cut it', the document explains.

For more than a decade, ministers have promised to end the practice under which male and female patients share facilities in Health Service hospitals.

A year...

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