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<p>The government is committed to maintaining protections for single-sex services.
Hospitals are already able, under Paragraph 27 (5)(a) of Schedule 3 of the Equality
Act 2010, to provide such services and the NHS’s guidance on <a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/6005/Delivering_same_sex_accommodation_sep2019.pdf"
target="_blank">Delivering Same Sex Accommodation</a>, published in September 2019,
is very clear that hospitals must provide such services, with very few exceptions.</p><p>We
have no plans to change the Equality Act 2010 to require hospitals to provide single-sex
services.</p>
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