Comments on: Ten years on and still mixed wards http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/05/10/ten-years-on-and-still-mixed-wards/ Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wokingham Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:14:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: A Mental health service user http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/05/10/ten-years-on-and-still-mixed-wards/#comment-2264 A Mental health service user Sat, 12 May 2007 01:18:43 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=245#comment-2264 Thank you for referring to this very important issue of mixed wards. It is an issue of safety that is just as important as the problems still facing the NHS in trying to provide rapid access to adequate treatment for life threatening and serious illnesses. Men and women should be segregated in hospitals. The rape and abuse of patients in mental hospitals, which has been well documented in the press in recent years, for example, in The Times and more recently The Independent, as well as on a channel 4 documentary, serves to illustrate this point. It is not a trivial issue of discomfort. It's important to challenge the government on this issue and on the state of NHS services. Politicians, everyone in fact, needs to work together, to debate and try to establish concrete, practical ways in which it might be possible for the vast majority of money and resources provided for the NHS to actually reach patients and local services rather than being swallowed up by bureaucracy, or lost due to the need to meet government targets. A lot of money has been made available in the last few years; this is progress, although it isn't nearly enough yet. How do you suggest it can be better managed? Thank you for referring to this very important issue of mixed wards. It is an issue of safety that is just as important as the problems still facing the NHS in trying to provide rapid access to adequate treatment for life threatening and serious illnesses.

Men and women should be segregated in hospitals. The rape and abuse of patients in mental hospitals, which has been well documented in the press in recent years, for example, in The Times and more recently The Independent, as well as on a channel 4 documentary, serves to illustrate this point. It is not a trivial issue of discomfort.

It’s important to challenge the government on this issue and on the state of NHS services. Politicians, everyone in fact, needs to work together, to debate and try to establish concrete, practical ways in which it might be possible for the vast majority of money and resources provided for the NHS to actually reach patients and local services rather than being swallowed up by bureaucracy, or lost due to the need to meet government targets. A lot of money has been made available in the last few years; this is progress, although it isn’t nearly enough yet. How do you suggest it can be better managed?

]]> By: Stuart Fairney http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/05/10/ten-years-on-and-still-mixed-wards/#comment-2223 Stuart Fairney Thu, 10 May 2007 12:06:55 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=245#comment-2223 Perhaps more worryingly still, was the news today that British cancer survival rates are the lowest in Western Europe. This suggests to me, after tripling spending in a decade, that a nationalised system of healthcare may not the be the best system possible system, bearing in mind it achieves the worst outcomes. Perhaps more worryingly still, was the news today that British cancer survival rates are the lowest in Western Europe. This suggests to me, after tripling spending in a decade, that a nationalised system of healthcare may not the be the best system possible system, bearing in mind it achieves the worst outcomes.

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