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  • Chapter 23 - Female-Only PICUs

  • Edited by Roland Dix, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester, Stephen Dye, Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, Ipswich, Stephen M. Pereira, Keats House, London
  • Book:
    Psychiatric Intensive Care
    Published online:
    15 March 2024
    Print publication:
    28 March 2024, pp 286-294

  • Summary

    When psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) were first created in the United Kingdom, they were mixed-sex wards. As time progressed, evidence grew stronger for the need to create separate PICUs for men and women. Female-only PICUs have been around for about a decade, making them a relatively novel phenomenon within the existing mental health services in the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, they play a crucial role within the wide net of mental health services. This chapter summarises the history and development of female-only PICUs and describes some female-specific characteristics of such wards. It then focuses on describing women-specific perinatal mental health presentations and services, including existing provisions for women with mental illness to access family support and contact with their children. Lastly, it discusses the clinical considerations for patients with EUPD and ASPD to access PICU settings.