Transgender patients can choose whether they want to be treated on male or female wards, new NHS guidance stipulates.

NHS England says patients should be accommodated "according to their presentation", noting the "way they dress, and the name and pronouns they currently use".

The announcement follows a Telegraph investigation which revealed that despite official guidance from the Department of Health designed to eliminate mixed sex wards, hospitals were routinely allowing male patients to share female wards if they self-identify as women and without them having to transition.

Matt Hancock, the health secretary, ordered a review following this newspaper's findings, which came from more than 100 Freedom of Information requests.

The data found that none of the NHS England trusts required patients to have begun transitioning for them to be treated in accordance with how they identified.