title: Don't relax with sex-mix patients.
abstract: Jackie De Rochas quite rightly referred to the anxiety caused to many people allocated to mixed sex wards, 'particularly adults and senior citizens who find this objectionable and are not prepared to be cared for in such environments' (Mixed sex feeling ignored by NHS, Letters, December 8).
authors.affiliation: Nursing Policy Committee.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fox