Mixed-sex wards.

The coalition governmenth has today announced their plans to completedly eradicate mixed-sex wards in hospital, see here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10982566

I don't think you can say that this is a bad idea. I'm sure that hospitals would be a more dignified place without mixed sex wards.

What I can say is that it is a waste of money in order for political point-scoring.

Money is tight in the NHS, and everywhere, in fact. It's gonna cost money to take some of the facilities in the very old hospitals and change them so they can accomodate a single sex.

The fact is that Labour said several times that it was going to get rid of mixed-sex wards, and it never completely did it. They were getting phased out, but Labour first pledged it in 1997, so in 12 years of office, they didn't do it.

Admiteddly this is a failure on Labour's part, but now the Tories have decided they want to show up Labour, and make themselves look good by doing something that Labour said they were going to do.
Then they can bring it up in parliament every time for cheap political point scoring.

The problem is exactly that there isn't much money to go around, and to waste quite a large quantity of money doing something quickly that was already happening anyway is just horrible.