Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:47 pm on 13 March 2019.
Thank you very much. That's encouraging and—. Shall we take those thanks as read?
I was grateful to you for that quick response—it's great to get that. And Members will remember that I raised, in business statement last week, the very unfortunate situation of women experiencing miscarriage before 20 weeks being located on a mixed-sex ward in Swansea's Singleton Hospital. And it may well be a large ward—men down one end, women at the other, separated by a desk—but it's still a general surgery ward, and I don't know whether, in extremis, that division can always be observed. Your officials are looking at miscarriage services following the report published by Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales, a report quoting one woman as saying,
'After a silent miscarriage I was given some information sheets on what I could do next—on a ward for the world to hear'.
Now, that report is six months old. This can still happen on ward 2 in Singleton Hospital. I'd be grateful if you could confirm when this practice will stop altogether.