Playing Russian roulette with women’s safety

Matters, said: “It’s deeply disturbing that the safety and welfare of some of the most vulnerable women in London — those in the care of state mental health services — are being so seriously compromised by NHS trusts.

“The Supreme Court judgment was crystal-clear that single-sex services must be run on the basis of biological sex. There is no excuse for a dangerous ‘case-by-case’ approach that deems some men safe to be housed in women’s accommodation.

“These NHS trusts are missing the point: no male patient should ever be allowed in female accommodation under any circumstances. If health care managers cannot understand why this matters so much in mental health services, then they are not fit to run NHS trusts or to have female patients in their care.”