Improving women’s health and female equity at a secure unit

Addressing gender inequalities and improving women’s health at a female inpatient forensic mental health ward was achieved with this quality improvement change project.

Abstract

Women comprise less than one-fifth of service users in secure mental health settings, and many therapies and systems are geared towards males, leaving a deficit of care for women. This, the second of two related articles, explains how a nurse-led team used quality-improvement methodology to improve female equity, in terms of therapies and women’s health, on a medium-secure forensic mental health unit.

Citation: Hearn E (2023) Improving women’s health and female equity at a secure unit. Nursing Times [online]; 119: 12.

Author: Elizabeth Hearn is consultant nurse, East London NHS Foundation Trust.