Patients were placed on mixed-sex NHS hospital wards a record 43,700 times last year - despite the practice being banned in 2012. This was more than double the 20,061 reported in 2019,
Dr Vaishnavi Kumar, who worked at Birmingham Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), died after taking a lethal mixture of medication before waiting three hours to call for an ambulance in June 2022.
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