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The article discusses the authors' perspectives on how lived experience can be turned into collective action that occurred in women's health activism of the 1980s. It provides a brief background on the history of lived experience and self-injury in the 1980s with a focus on the feminist collective Bristol Crisis Service for Women. It discusses the function of survivor-led collectives as a tool for research.

In this article we explore how inpatient mental health services in England and Wales are interpreting and responding to policy derived from Mainstreaming Gender and Women's Mental Health (DH, 2003) in relation to women's safety in inpatient settings. This article will outline the background to concerns about safety in mental health settings for women and drawing on relevant literature and on interviews with service managers, practitioners and users identify some current issues in improving safety for women in inpatient settings and in creating single sex provision. Our review suggests that whilst there are improvements in provision for women in inpatient settings, some women are still not being offered a real choice of a women-only setting on admission to hospital, and that changing the culture that permits a lack of physical and relational safety for women presents real challenges. We will discuss some of the implications for future practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]