Two 年輩の women terrorised on mixed 区

By JAMES TOZER

Last updated at 10:31 12 June 2007

Two 年輩の women have 報告（する）／憶測d 存在 indecently 強襲，強姦d by a male 患者 on a mixed- sex hospital 区.

The pensioners, 老年の 76 and 82, were said to have been attacked in the 早期に hours of the morning.

Police were called to the scene, in an 査定／評価部隊 at the 王室の Bolton Hospital.

Officers are working with health 信用 bosses to 設立する正確に／まさに what happened. The women, one of whom 苦しむs from a mental disorder, are 存在申し込む／申し出d support from hospital staff.

The 申し立てられた／疑わしい出来事/事件最高潮の場面s the 政府's 失敗 to fulfil its 誓約（する） to rid the NHS of mixedsex 区s, criticised by 専門家s and 患者s' groups as undignified and humiliating.

As long ago as 1996, Tony Blair, then in 対立, said he did not believe it was 'beyond the wit of 政府 and health 行政官／管理者s' to get rid of mixed- sex

区s. 労働約束d to do so in both 1997 and 2001.

The Daily Mail has been （選挙などの）運動をするing for all 患者s to be 扱う／治療するd on 選び出す／独身-sex 区s, but earlier this year it 現れるd that one in six hospital 信用s have failed to 会合，会う公式の／役人指導基準s on not having male and 女性（の）患者s 株ing general 区s.

Alarmingly, the 最新の申し立てられた／疑わしい出来事/事件, の直前に 3am last Monday, happened at one of the 信用s which does 従う. The 王室の Bolton Hospital operates a mixed- sex 政策 only in '査定／評価部隊s' such as the 事故 and 緊急 and 臨床の決定／判定勝ち（する）s departments and in specialist 部隊s such as 集中的な care and the coronary 区.

Its director of nursing, Lesley Doherty, said: "These are very serious 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s. We will be 持つ／拘留するing a 十分な内部の調査. If there are any 活動／戦闘s to be taken, these will be 器具／実施するd 敏速に."

Hospitals are 許すd to 分類する区s as 選び出す／独身-sex even if it is only the individual bays which are not mixed, rather than the 区 as a whole. Bays are いつかs separated only by curtains.

にもかかわらず the 公式の／役人支配するs, 調査するs show most 患者s regard such 区s as still mixed.

Earlier this year it 現れるd that 28 out of 172 信用s in England had failed to 達成する even that 限られた／立憲的な的 - 王室の Bolton Hospital was one of those which did.

However three out of ten inpatients there said they had 株d a sleeping area with someone of the opposite sex on admission, によれば a Healthcare （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 questionnaire last year.

This was 意味ありげに above the 普通の／平均（する） for England.

Last night 地元の政治家，政治屋s 需要・要求するd an end to all mixed-sex 区s at the hospital. Andy Morgan, Tory chairman of Bolton 会議's health scrutiny 委員会, said: "I 需要・要求する an 緊急の調査. There are no excuses for mixed-sex 区s nowadays. This is about dignity and 尊敬（する）・点."

David Crausby, 労働 MP for Bolton North-East, said: "Even if it costs a bit more, I'm sure the 大多数 of the public would support spending money in this way."

A 最近の熟考する／考慮する by the 国家の患者 Safety 機関明らかにする／漏らすd that as many as 100 people have been 強姦d, sexually 強襲，強姦d or 悩ますd in NHS mental health 部隊s in just two years.

? A 41-year-old man appeared in 法廷，裁判所 last week 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with sexually touching a woman without 同意 and 性の activity with a woman with a mental disorder. He was 再拘留（者）d in 保護／拘留.