Background With austerity measures and cuts to community mental health services, more
women are accessing UK inpatient mental health services. Inpatient services have been …

The A ustralian C ollege of M ental H ealth N urses directs that mental health nurses must
'enable cultural safety in practice, taking into account age, gender, spirituality, ethnicity and …

Despite a number of national developments in the past few years, concerns remain about
the experience and outcomes for service users in inpatient care settings. As part of a …

Background Survivors of sexual violence, who are predominantly women, commonly access
mental health services. Psychiatric inpatient units in Australia are predominately mixed …

OBJECTIVES: To review national (UK) literature in order to (i) examine service user and
carer views of UK-registered mental health nurses;(ii) identify the diversity of populations …

Accessible summary What is known on the subject? Three pilot UK‐only Women's
Enhanced Medium Secure Services (WEMSS) was opened in 2007 to support women's …

Background: Women in secure setting represent a group for whom gender sensitive
treatments are only emergent. Service users are viewed as participants in treatment …

Background. Acute psychiatric provision in the UK today as well as globally has many critics
including service users and nurses. Method. Four focus groups, each meeting twice, were …

Within mental health services there are fewer women than men with serious mental health
problems and there is evidence that their needs are relatively neglected resulting in specific …

Introduction: The need to address gender sensitivity and implement strategies to improve the
treatment of women within inpatient mental health facilities has gained international …