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" NHS patients are still being treated on mixed-sex wards despite the government&amp;#039;s pledge to abolish the practice, new figures show. According to the Conservatives, 15 per cent of hospital trusts still use mixed-sex wards and 28 per cent do not provide separate men&amp;#039;s and women&amp;#039;s bathroom facilities for all patients. Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley accused the government of failing to take action. Paul Farmer, chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, said that very little progress has been made despite the government&amp;#039;s repeated commitments to abolish mixed-sex wards. &amp;#039;Mental health wards are meant to offer care for people who will be at their lowest and most vulnerable and treating patients in mixed-sex environments compromises their sense of privacy, dignity and safety,&amp;#039; he claimed. Mr Farmer claimed that mixed-sex wards do not offer the best chance of recovery and described the situation as &amp;#039;simply unacceptable&amp;#039;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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