EVESHAM Hospital has been named and shamed for not having single sex toilets for patients.

The Government standard that all patients should have access to single sex toilets was announced in Labour's 1997 general election manifesto as part of a wider promise to end mixed-sex wards.

Tony Blair had attacked the Conservative Party for failing to have "the wit" to end the practice.

A target was then introduced in 2000 that within two years 95 per cent of patients would be in single-sex accommodation.

But the Government has admitted there are many hospitals failing to ensure all non-emergency patients are kept in single-sex accommodation and meet the guidelines for separate toilets.

Evesham Hospital, run by Worcestershire Primary Care Trust, was on the list.

Paul Bates, chief executive of Worcestershire Primary Care Trust, which is responsible for the county's community hospitals, said it would be sorted out.

"Worcestershire has just been named as one of the primary care trusts which has hospital wards that fail to meet the standards for ensuring that patients are not treated in mixed sex wards," he said.

"This is a problem at Evesham Hospital where we cannot currently meet the required standards to provide completely separate toilet and bathroom facilities for men and women. We shall put this right. When we have done so we shall have a superb range of hospital and GP premises in Worcestershire which will be the envy of most other counties."