AROUND 100 patients at Winchester’s main hospital spent time on a mixed gender ward in December, health chiefs said.
The NHS keeps figures on every hospital trust across Britain, although the data is not collected in the same month.
They picked December for Winchester, which was one of its busiest periods, which led to more mixed wards than usual.
The figures came before the latest meeting of Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust at the Romsey Road site on Wednesday (January 26).
Board members heard that if one patient was moved into a bay with five others of different gender then that counted as six occurrences.
None were reported when the NHS checked on hospitals in Southampton and Portsmouth earlier in the year.
However, some in the region had around 200 incidents or more, which left Winchester somewhere in the middle, the board heard.
Chief nurse Paula Shobbrook then said the priority for most patients was good quality care, and not being on a single-sex ward.
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