Trust wide news
Mossley Hill – ward names revealed
Names for the wards at Mersey Care’s new 80 bed mental healthcare service on the site of the old Mossley Hill Hospital can now be revealed ahead of the site’s expected opening at the end of 2024.
The name of the new unit will remain as Mossley Hill following an extensive public engagement exercise last year, but Trust staff and service users have chosen the names to be used around the new site, which are as follows:
- Braddock Ward - remembering the pioneering Liverpool MP and public health campaigner Bessie Braddock
- Archer Ward - in memory of John Archer, the Liverpool born politician, who became the first black mayor of a London borough in 1913 when he was elected in Battersea
- Roscoe Ward - William Roscoe, Liverpool MP, abolitionist and botanic garden founder
- Wilkinson Ward - named for Kitty Wilkinson, who pioneered public hygiene in the city’s wash houses
- The Oasis Café - this was the original name of the café in the old hospital
- Crawford Suite - the suite for those detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act will be named after the original landowner.
More information, videos and updates about the new Mossley Hill mental health unit can be found on our website.
Welcome to Mersey Cares, our new charity
Have you heard about Mersey Cares, our new charity which has been set up to support our physical and mental health services? The charity plays a vital and growing role in working alongside the Trust to serve the health needs of our communities.
It will prioritise where funds are needed most to introduce and deliver innovative community projects and enhanced support to help people keep well and living well at home for longer.
You can keep in the loop of Mersey Cares' activities by subscribing to their news here or otherwise find out more here at Mersey Cares - Our New Charity :: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Remember: Nominate your Mersey Care ‘stars’ for our awards
A reminder that our annual ‘Star Awards’ celebrate the amazing work of our staff and recognise hard work, commitment to perfect care and personal or collective achievements.
You can nominate anyone who works at the Trust, including volunteers, so if you’ve come across one of our colleagues who you believe has gone above and beyond, why not put them forward? More information can be found on the Star Awards webpage with nominations closing on Friday, 8 September.
Come along to our AGM
Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Thursday, 21 September 2023 at Aintree Racecourse in the Golden Miller Suite between 1.30pm and 3pm.
If you would like to join this year’s AGM, please register your attendance by emailing: AGM2023@merseycare.nhs.uk
More information about the event, which provides attendees with an opportunity to find out more about the Trust and also review some of our highlights and performance from over the last 12 months, can be found on the Trust’s website.
Recruitment at Mersey Care: Medicines Management event and Non-Executive Director vacancies
We’re holding a recruitment event to highlight vacancies in our Medicines Management team, including: pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support workers.
Why not join us at a virtual information session on Wednesday, 6 September from 1 till 2pm where you will meet our Chief Pharmacist, hear more about the range of roles on offer and have the opportunity to ask questions? You can register your interest and find out about the various roles on our website.
We’re also looking at service redesign with a much broader community and partnership involvement. To deliver this we recognise that we need the specialist skills of Non-executive Directors:
- Post 1 Non-executive Director who was an academic clinician at a university with experience of population health, data science, clinical research and grant applications
- Post 2 Non-executive Director with Board level management experience of risk management systems, governance processes and use of digital systems as part of change management
- Post 3 Non-executive Director with Board level management experience of equality, diversity and inclusion, change management, governance and research processes.
You’ll join a high performing, ambitious Board developing the highest quality services, supported by cutting edge innovation and research. It’s a unified Board with very different backgrounds, skills and ages. Find out more information in our special ‘NED’ section of the website.
If neither of those opportunities suit you, we have a wide variety of vacancies suiting all sorts of different skills and qualifications. We’re not only doctors and nurses in the NHS – there’s a broad range suitable for all capabilities. Why not have a look at the current vacancies section of our website to see if you can join Mersey Care’s family?
Physical Health News
Mersey Care is on the move
As part of plans to further improve and upgrade facilities, City Walk-in Centre based at The Beat in Hanover Street will move to the ground floor of the Linda McCartney Centre at the Royal Liverpool Hospital site, Prescot Street on 16 October.
Ahead of an anticipated busy winter, this move will provide our staff, patients and the local population with access to diagnostic facilities, x rays and ambulance conveyancing as well as the ability to quickly transfer patients requiring emergency medical treatment to the A&E department if required.
A city wide campaign to raise awareness of the move will be launched. If you have any questions or require any additional information, please contact: Michelle.Fanning@merseycare.nhs.uk
Our CMAGIC service will also move to a new base in Dale Street from 12 September 2023 and will also operate one day a week from a Central Liverpool Primary Care Network site on London Road.
From 1 September 2023, several other services are also moving from their current base at Puma Court to V7 building in Prescot. Please update your records accordingly:
- Health Technology/Telehealth
- Single Point of Contact (SPC)
- Single Point of Access
- Unscheduled Care Team
- Out of Hours District Nurses
- Community Management Office.
The new address is:
V7 Building
Kings Business Park
Prescot
Liverpool
L34 1PJ
All contact telephone numbers and email addresses remain the same.
The Life Rooms presents at Healthy City Design 2023 conference
Georgi Byrne-Watts, Quality and Research Lead for The Life Rooms will be presenting at the Healthy City Design 2023 conference in Liverpool in October.
Our innovative Liverpool Public Health project demonstrates the impact and benefits of The Life Rooms’ Social Model of Health and supports innovative ways of improving health and wellbeing for socially deprived communities.
Employment Event at The Life Rooms Bootle
The Life Rooms Bootle will be the venue for our new employment event, which is designed to help people from the community return to the workforce, taking place on Wednesday, 13 September.
The ‘Getting back into work’ event hopes to help those taking the first steps back into employment with our Getting Back Into Work event in Bootle. Volunteering opportunities and employment advice are also available, including skills and confidence workshops and marketplace information stalls from various other organisations.
More details about the Bootle event can be found on The Life Rooms website.
Simply Book a blood test online
Patients who need a blood test from Knowsley, Liverpool, South Sefton, and Southport and Formby, can now book appointments online.
The online booking system has been used across Liverpool and South Sefton since August 2021 and has now been extended to Knowsley, Southport and Formby.
More information about the new online booking service can be found on our website.
Mental Health News
Important new studies on suicide and self harm
Navneet Kapur, Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health at the University of Manchester and honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Mersey Care, has led important research called: ‘Suicide after leaving the UK Armed Forces 1996–2018: A cohort study.’ It looked at suicide risk in over 400,000 personnel who left the UK Armed Forces over a 23 year period.
The retrospective study concluded that while the risk was not high, there were important differences according to age, with higher risk in young men and women. Improving and maintaining access to mental health care and social supports for young service leavers is important for suicide prevention, as well as implementing general suicide prevention measures for all veterans regardless of age.
If you’d like more information on the study you can read the study, watch the video or take a look at the infographic summarising the study.Professor Kapur was also the expert topic advisor for new guidelines published by the British Journal of Psychiatry called: 'New guidance for self-harm: an opportunity not to be missed.’ The study discusses key considerations for mental health services in response to the NICE self harm guidelines. You can read the new guidelines, or view a video summarising the guidelines and a presentation of the key highlights during a webinar.
Funding awarded to help reduce suicide in Liverpool
Public Health Liverpool and the Safe from Suicide Team at Mersey Care have awarded £150k of funding to voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations to help reduce suicide rates across the Liverpool City Council area.
The aim of this micro-commissioning programme was to encourage VCSE organisations to develop activities, initiatives and partnerships across communities to support the health and wellbeing of Liverpool residents. More information about the project can be found on our website.
Talking Therapies at Central Station for World Suicide Prevention Day
Our Talking Therapies services will be taking part in a pop-up event at Central Station, Liverpool on World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September) between 11am and 3pm.
If you use the station, please pop by, say hello and find out more about what Talking Therapies offers.
Talking Therapies is a free NHS service for adults registered with a GP in Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens (aged 16 plus) or Halton (aged 18 plus) who want to learn how to overcome common mental health problems such as depression or anxiety (including worry, panic, social anxiety, OCD and trauma).
We encourage self referral, either via our website or by calling your local service, Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm.
- Halton: 0151 292 6954
- Knowsley: 0151 351 8600 (option one)
- Liverpool: 0151 228 2300
- St Helens: 01744 415 650
Our latest MC Magazine is out now
Read about:
- Fibromyalgia
- Get into nature
- The best medicine
- Making friends when we’re older
- The Smiling Volunteer
- Healing the wounds of trauma
Why not give the whole magazine a read via our website?
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