Mersey Care supports new era for community care in West Lancashire

Mersey Care is working with Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (MWL) in a new partnership to deliver community health services across West Lancashire, marking an important milestone for local care.

MWL will act as lead provider for the contract and Mersey Care has been sub-contracted to provide its expertise in delivering some of the specialist community services, which will covers mainly rural districts with a population of around 118,000 people, including Skelmersdale, Ormskirk and surrounding villages.

The partnership brings services together under a more joined-up model, designed to improve access, coordination and outcomes for patients, while ensuring care is delivered as close to home as possible.

The two trusts will provide specialist services including:

• Community dietetics
• Community neurological rehabilitation
• Community rehabilitation
• Falls prevention
• Podiatry
• Speech and Language Therapy for Adults.

Mersey Care already provides community services across Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens. Patients in West Lancashrie can continue to contact the services they need by phone or via a new email service, and will continue to receive care as normal during the transition, with no changes to how services are delivered.

Telephone: Care Coordination Hub – 0300 247 0011 (open seven days a week, 8am–8pm, with an answerphone outside these hours)
Email: MWL.westlancs-spa@merseywestlancs.nhs.uk 

Patients will continue to receive care as normal, with no changes to how services are accessed or delivered during the transition.

These new arrangements support closer collaboration between organisations and aim to provide more consistent, accessible care for people across West Lancashire, helping to improve overall health and wellbeing outcomes.