At Chesterfield Royal Hospital, we prioritise same-sex accommodation for inpatients across our wards, maintaining respect and dignity for all patients. Our Emergency Management Unit (EMU) exemplifies this commitment, offering same-sex accommodation even in emergency situations. Inpatient wards feature same-sex bays, some with en-suite facilities and reversible signage, ensuring privacy.

In certain critical care areas like our Intensive Therapy Unit ITU, High Dependency Unit (HDU), and our Emergency Department, national guidelines may require mixed-sex settings, but privacy is safeguarded with partitions and careful arrangements.

For queries about our same-sex accommodations, please reach out to our ward's nursing team.

The room where your bed is, where you sleep, will only have patients of the same sex as you. Your toilet and bathroom will be just for your gender and will be close to your bed area.

See the Same Sex Accommodation guide by NHS England for more information

It is likely that there will be both men and women patients on the ward, but they will not share your sleeping area. You may have to cross a ward corridor to reach your bathroom, but you will not have to walk through opposite-sex areas. 

You may share some communal space, such as day rooms and it is very likely that you will see both men and women patients as you move around the hospital (e.g. on your way to X-ray or the operating theatre). 

It is probable that visitors of the opposite gender will come into the room where your bed is, and this may include patients visiting each other. 

It is almost certain that both male and female nurses, doctors and other staff will come into your bed area. 

If you need help to use the toilet or take a bath (e.g. you need a hoist or special bath) then you may be taken to a 'unisex' bathroom used by both men and women, but a member of staff will be with you, and other patients will not be in the bathroom at the same time.