Barriers and facilitators to accessing sexual and reproductive health services for people with severe mental illness: a systematic review.

Purpose: Despite increased prevalence of sexual and reproductive health problems among people with severe mental illness (SMI), uptake of sexual and reproductive healthcare in this group is poor. The reasons for this are unclear. Therefore, this review aimed to identify the barriers and facilitators to accessing sexual and reproductive health services from a service user perspective.

Prevalence of HIV in mental health service users: a retrospective cohort study.

Objective: To examine the prevalence of HIV in a cohort of people who have used secondary mental health services in the UK.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Routinely collected clinical data from secondary mental health services in South London, UK available for research through the Clinical Record Interactive Search tool at the National Institute for Health and Care Research Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre were matched with pseudonymised national HIV surveillance data held by the UK Health Security Agency using a deterministic matching algorithm.

Sexual and reproductive health needs assessment and interventions in a female psychiatric intensive care unit.

Aims And Method: To assess the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of women admitted to a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU), and acceptability of delivering specialist SRH assessments and interventions in this setting. Within a quality improvement framework, staff were trained, a clinical protocol developed and clinical interventions made accessible.

Results: Thirty per cent of women were identified as having unmet SRH needs and proceeded to a specialist appointment, representing a 2.