HC Deb 16 July 1987 vol 119 c631W
Ms. Gordon

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many patients on (a) general, (b) geriatric, (c) psychiatric and (d) mental handicap wards share bedrooms; if he will draw the attention of district health authorities to the disapproval of this practice expressed by his Department in 1980; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Currie

Information on numbers of patients in wards accommodating both sexes is not collected centrally. The guidance given to health authority chairmen in 1980 still stands.