A bedsit , bedsitter , or bed-sitting room is a form of accommodation common in some parts of the United Kingdom which consists of a single room per occupant with all occupants typically sharing a bathroom. Bedsits are included in a legal category of dwellings referred to as houses in multiple occupation (HMO).
21-397: (Redirected from The Bedsitting Room ) The Bed-Sitting Room can refer to: a typically British expression denoting a small residence comprising primarily a combined bedroom & sitting room, also known as a bedsit . The Bedsitting Room (play) , a play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus The Bed Sitting Room (film) , a film based on
42-615: A bedsit in 1993." Katharine Whitehorn 's book Cooking in a Bedsitter (originally Kitchen in the Corner: a complete guide to bedsitter cookery ), first published in 1961 and a classic of its kind, remained in print for thirty-five years. It was published by Penguin Books in the Penguin Handbooks series. Health Service Executive The Health Service Executive ( HSE ) ( Irish : Feidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte )
63-799: A common kitchen, bathroom, toilet, and telephone are shared by several families, each of which lives in a single room opening up onto a common hallway. In Nigeria, an analogue to a bedsit is a face-to-face apartment building, where a group of one- or two-room apartments have entrances facing each other along a walkway leading to the main entrance of the building in which the apartments are located. The apartments, which often have shared bathrooms and kitchen spaces, are low-rent and are commonly used by low-income residents because of their affordability. Bedsits were once common in Dublin and other towns in Ireland, although they had been impractical to implement after
84-452: A new online system for medical card applications that will reduce turnaround time for routine applications to 15 days. In May 2011, key forensic evidence in up to 25 sexual-assault cases may be challenged in court because of a major administrative blunder by the HSE. The victims – some as young as 14 – were told by Gardaí about the incident, in which a nurse who carried out their forensic tests
105-464: A restructure of Irish public hospitals and a goal of delivering better patient care: A new arrangement of 90 primary care networks was announced in October 2014. On 4 April 2022, it was announced that the chief operations officer of the HSE – Anne O'Connor – would be leaving the organisation in the summer to take up a new role as managing director of VHI Health and Wellbeing. On 27 June 2022, it
126-706: A separate bathroom, a four-ring cooker, and access to laundry facilities and other basic facilities, or risk being fined up to €5,000. Bedsits have since been outlawed in the Republic. Much of the action described in Quentin Crisp 's 1968 autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant , takes place in a London bedsit. Bedsits are often associated with poor people, and are mentioned in this way in " Late Lament " by The Moody Blues : "Bedsitter people look back and lament/another day's useless energy spent". Justin Hayward ,
147-401: Is 'a serious and ongoing violation of their rights'. On 14 May 2021, the HSE suffered a major ransomware cyberattack which caused all of its IT systems nationwide to be shut down. It was the most significant cybercrime attack on an Irish state agency and the largest known attack against a health service computer system. Some reports have traced the origin of the attack back to
168-561: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bedsit Bedsits arose from the subdivision of larger dwellings into low-cost accommodation at low conversion cost. In the UK, a growing desire for personal independence after World War II led to a reduced demand for traditional boarding houses with communal dining. Bedsits are often occupied by young single people, students, those unable to purchase their own properties, or those whose occupation
189-673: Is of a transitory nature; the cost is typically lower than for other types of property. Someone whose employment is a long distance from their home may sometimes rent a bedsit to reduce the cost and inconvenience of daily travel. The American and Canadian equivalents to a bedsit are rooming houses and single room occupancy (SRO); however, in Canada those differ from bedsits in that rooming houses and SRO hotels generally do not provide tenants with private kitchen or bathing facilities; instead, those facilities are shared. True bedsits are rare in Canada but are found in some Atlantic regions, such as
210-550: Is the publicly funded healthcare system in Ireland , responsible for the provision of health and personal social services. It came into operation on 1 January 2005. The current director-general is Bernard Gloster , who took up the new role on 6 March 2023, after Paul Reid stepped down. The Health Service Executive (HSE) was established by the Health Act 2004 and came into official operation on 1 January 2005. It replaced
231-559: The Soft Cell song " Bedsitter ", about club life. David Bowie in " Song for Bob Dylan " from Hunky Dory (1971) sings: "You gave your heart to every bedsit room". The Clash song "Capitol Radio" remarks "phone in from your bedsit room". Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds refer to a bedsit in their 2024 song "Wild God" from the album of the same name, with the lyric: "He went searching for the girl down on Jubilee Street. But she’d died in
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#1732798164274252-475: The HSE announced the appointment of Bernard Gloster, former CEO of TUSLA Child and Family Agency, as the new director general of the HSE. The HSE is frequently portrayed by the Irish media as an inefficient, top-heavy and excessively bureaucratic organisation. The Irish health system has been involved in a number of serious health scandals, for example relating to cancer misdiagnoses in 2008. The HSE has also been
273-473: The city of St. John's. In the United States, single room apartments are typically called a studio apartment , or when slightly smaller an efficiency apartment, also known simply as an efficiency. The Australian equivalent to bedsit is called flatette. In New Zealand, the terms bedsit and granny flat are used interchangeably. A bedsit can also be compared to a Soviet communal apartment , in which
294-514: The introduction of planning permission in 1963. Bedsits were banned in 2008 by the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2008, with a phase-out date of February 2013. The Health Service Executive and approved housing bodies can still offer equivalent accommodation, which is mostly used as emergency accommodation for the homeless. In 2013, regulations came into force in Ireland, under which landlords were obliged to provide each tenant with
315-469: The play Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Bed-Sitting Room . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Bed-Sitting_Room&oldid=892167334 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
336-531: The protagonist's existence to that of a prisoner locked in solitary confinement . Scottish folk-rock singer Al Stewart 's debut album is titled Bedsitter Images . In "I Fought in a War" by Scottish indie band Belle and Sebastian , mention is made of the "bedsit infamy of the decade gone before". The subject is also referenced for a similar purpose in "Legend in My Living Room" by Annie Lennox ["...Bright lights and trains and bedsit stains"] as well as
357-575: The song's composer and singer, wrote it in his own bed-sit at the age of 19, although the quoted line was penned by the band's drummer, Graeme Edge . The song "Solitary Confinement" from the Members album At the Chelsea Nightclub , paints a grim picture of life in a bedsit room, portraying the life of a loner who has moved to the city, and spends all their time at work or at home watching television, and "eat(s) out of tins". The song likens
378-612: The subject of criticism for cutbacks, service cancellations etc., but has indicated that it is making good progress in saving costs and achieving its required 'break-even' budget position for 2010. In the same month, the Irish Medical Organisation stated that patients awaiting a HSE medical card were waiting up to six months to receive their card, and that their health was being put at risk as they could not afford medicines that they would have otherwise obtained had they received their card. The HSE has since announced
399-899: The ten regional Health Boards , the Eastern Regional Health Authority and a number of other different agencies and organisations. The Minister for Health retained overall responsibility for the Executive in Government . The HSE adopted a regional structure (HSE Dublin Mid-Leinster, HSE Dublin North East, HSE South and HSE West). A new grouping of hospitals was announced by the Irish Minister for Health, Dr. James Reilly TD , in May 2013, as part of
420-472: Was announced that the current director general of the HSE – Paul Reid – would be stepping down from his role in December to 'spend more time with family'. On 16 August 2022, it was announced that the director general – Paul Reid – would be leaving on 3 October 2022, two months earlier than planned. His role was temporarily filled by the current chief financial officer – Stephen Mulvany. On 16 December 2022,
441-518: Was unregistered. This could lead to the evidence being challenged. In May 2018, in the midst of the CervicalCheck misdiagnoses controversy, Tony O'Brien announced his resignation as director-general of the HSE with effect from close of business on 11 May. An Ombudsman report in October 2020 found that children with suspected disabilities are encountering delays of many years in having their needs properly assessed. The report said that this
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