8 January 2020 .
More than 1,000 sexual assaults have been reported on mixed-sex N H S mental health wards in the last three years, figures show .
There were 1,019 reports of alleged sexual assaults between men and women in England from April 2017 to October 2019 .
Although trusts report following policies on single-sex accommodation, men and women in mental health units still mix in communal areas or in overloaded wards. .
The data was given by 47 out of a total 56 mental health trusts in an investigation by medical news website the Health Service Journal .
It revealed that, of the abuse reports, 491 were considered serious enough for staff to refer them to safeguarding services, while just 104 were reported to the police .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7860747/More-1-000-patients-sexually-abused-mixed-sex-NHS-mental-health-wards-2-5-years.html .
