Our Services
Summer catch up clinics help children get vaccinated for school return
Parents and carers from Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens are being invited to attend summer catch up clinics to ensure vaccinations are up to date before the return to school in September.
Mersey Care's summer catch up clinics provide an opportunity for secondary school children - primary school children received missed vaccinations from their GP practice - to receive missed vaccinations, including MMR (measles, mumps and rubella). HPV, teenage booster vaccinations, Meningitis ACWY. More information about dates and venues for clinics can be found on our vaccinations and immunisations webpage.
Celebrating our partnerships
We’ve launched a new webpage to celebrate our partnerships and give further details on our work with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and North Mersey Integrated Provider Partnership, a tripartite partnership with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Trust and the University Hospitals of Liverpool group.
Check out all the information you need elsewhere on our website, including our approach to partnerships and how we’re putting our people at the heart of our work.
Ukraine delegation visits Mersey Care
A delegation from Ukraine and the World Health Organisation (WHO) visited Liverpool to share learning on mental health care rooted in human rights, compassion and recovery. The visit was part of the WHO’s QualityRights programme, which supports Ukraine’s ongoing mental health reform and focuses on community based, trauma informed care.
Delegates took part in discussions, workshops and visits to services including Mossley Hill, Aspen Wood and The Life Rooms (see picture below). The visit was an important opportunity to learn from one another, share best practice and strengthen care that puts people first. The visit also highlights Mersey Care’s national work to reduce restrictive practice through the HOPE(S) model, supporting safer, more compassionate care across the country. More information is available on the news pages of our website.
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 covers mainly rural districts with a population of around 118,000 people, including Skelmersdale, Ormskirk and surrounding villages. More information on the news pages of our website.
Our Research
Helping young people move into employment, education and training
An exciting new Mersey Care project is examining how young people could be better supported to move positively into education, employment and training. It brings together health, education, social care and community services and is funded by Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) as part of the Office for Public Service Innovation (OPSI) Lab Programme.
Celebrating one year of the Mood Clinic
Please watch our new video marking the first anniversary of the Mood Clinic to learn about progress made in the past year and how service user and carer representatives from the Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC) contributed to the development of the service.
New study aims to improve treatment for borderline personality disorder
We’ve launched an exciting new study called QUEST which aims to improve treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). It will examine whether Quetiapine, a commonly prescribed medication for schizophrenia and major depressive disorder, can also help treat BPD. Learn more on our website news pages.
Prof Jane L Ireland announced as new chair of the Division of Forensic Psychology
Congratulations to Prof Jane L Ireland, Forensic Psychologist at Ashworth Hospital and director of the Ashworth Research Centre, who has been elected Chair of the Division of Forensic Psychology for the British Psychological Society. Learn more about Prof Ireland’s goals for the role.
Get Involved
NHS Big Tea events underway across Mersey Care to celebrate two big birthdays
To mark 78 years of the NHS and 25 years of Mersey Care, teams across the Trust came together in July to host NHS Big Tea parties to celebrate the two anniversaries and everyone who makes the NHS everything that it is.
Our Mersey Cares charity team hosted an event at Hollins Park last week, while Fern Ward staff hosted two events, one for staff and an event for patients and their families.
If you want to help us make a difference by hosting a Big Tea with friends, family or colleagues, there’s still time. Our FREE fundraising pack featuring bunting, Bake Off rosettes, games ideas and more will get you started!
Why not run the Manchester Marathon for our charity?
Did you miss out on a place for the Adidas Manchester Marathon next year – we still have charity places up for grabs. Public places have already sold out - with 40,000 entries snapped up in the first 10 days of launching but we have 10 places available for those willing to run for our Mersey Cares charity.
The iconic race takes place on Sunday, 18 April 2027 and our places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, so don’t hesitate and sign up on the charity’s website to help support NHS staff, service users, patients, volunteers and carers.
Carer's Week 2026: How we’re supporting carers across our communities
During Carer’s Week, we celebrated the incredible dedication, compassion and strength of unpaid carers and shared a few of the ways Mersey Cares has been supporting our Carer Engagement Team and carers across our communities.
From funding arts and crafts materials for therapeutic activities at Carers’ Cafes to working with local businesses to help fund wellbeing packs for young carers – funding and donations really make a difference. Thanks to the micro-commissioning of a Carer Engagement Officer, we’ve also been able to enhance support for carers across underrepresented communities.
MC Magazine and features
Although we’ve changed the way we distribute our MC Magazine, and now produce it as a digital product, our commitment to high quality stories that share our message remains the same.
Our focus on features will expand and reach wider audiences more regularly and more effectively on the features page on our website and will be promoted across our social media channels.
If you would like to be added to the mailing list, please contact the Communications Team. Digital copies of previous magazines can be found on our MC Magazine Page.
Join our stakeholder news mailing list
Do you know someone who wants to learn more about Mersey Care by joining our stakeholder mailing list? Please ask them to fill in the form on our website and they’ll be the first to hear all our news.