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Cambridge University Hospitals is committed to treating all patients with privacy and dignity in a safe, clean and comfortable environment.

 

The majority of patients are already cared for in same sex areas and the hospital complies with the core guiding principles of the NHS Constitution – ‘patients should feel that their privacy and dignity are respected during their time in hospital’. The latest Healthcare Commission’s* national survey of inpatients put us in the top 20 percent of all hospitals for same sex sleeping facilities.

 

All ward sleeping areas, with the current exception of our Clinical Decisions Unit, are managed to ensure only patients of the same sex are placed together and we are currently working towards providing same sex accommodation in our Clinical Decisions Unit. All of our bathrooms and toilets are designated as same sex with the exception of disabled access bathrooms/toilets. In our intensive care units where specialist equipment and care is provided, we endeavour to maintain our patient’s privacy and dignity at all times but male and female patients should expect to be cared for in the same environment.

 

Patients attending day treatment areas such as chemotherapy and dialysis are treated in areas where every effort is made to offer patients the choice of same sex accommodation. There are day case areas, for example endoscopy, where we are working toward the provision of same sex recovery areas by March 2010.

 

The Trust is committed to continuous improvement and has plans in place to further improve the privacy and dignity of our patients and to ensure that by March 2010 all of our facilities are in accordance with the exacting standards issued by the Department of Health. Work also continues to provide more single rooms with en-suite facilities.

 

 

*now the Care Quality Commission