title: Mental health. The safer sex.
abstract: Around one tenth of medium-secure patients are women, but NHS provision does not reflect this. Women patients are more likely than men to have a history of abuse or self-harm, but less likely to have committed a violent or sexual offence. Medium-secure services are increasingly being provided in-house rather than being commissioned from the private sector.
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dent
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012637:Security Measures; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom; D014932:Women's Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*