Theresa May drops 2015 manifesto pledge to make ALL NHS wards single gender
The PM abandoned the promise that also appeared in the 2010 manifesto
A VOW to eliminate mixed sex wards in the NHS has been abandoned by Theresa May.
It appeared in both their 2010 and 2015 manifestos.
Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: “Patients expect dignity in hospital.
"The Tories are letting them down.
“In the election only Labour is committed to ending the scandal of mixed sex wards.”
A Conservative spokesman said: “Jeremy Corbyn’s promises are meaningless.
“Labour did nothing on this in government, so in 2010 there were nearly 12,000 patients a month on mixed sex wards.
“Numbers fell 93 per cent by March 2017.
“The only way to secure NHS funding is to vote for us.”
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Hospitals face daily £250 fines per patient for breaking NHS mixed sex rules.
In 2016/17 there were 7,771 uses of mixed wards, against just 3,741 four years earlier.
Figures also show there were 703 incidents in April 2017 - up 44 per cent compared with April 2016.
In total there have been 7097 incidents in the 10 months since Theresa May became Prime Minister, compared with just 4259 in the whole of 2015.
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