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Mental health patients in shared wards despite calls for NHS to end practice

Concerns raised after minister says there are more than 1,100 beds still in dormitory settings in England

People with serious mental health problems are being forced to share wards with distressed fellow patients, 20 years after the NHS was told to give them all their own rooms.

There are still more than 1,100 beds in dormitory wards in mental health units in England, despite sustained criticism of their potentially damaging effects on patients, the government has said.

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