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        • Limiting external room hire, hospitality and venues for events
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      • Use of V7 building
      • New recruitment process for Corporate Division
      • New recruitment process for corporate division
      • Supporting newly qualified professionals
      • No staff access to V7 on Saturday 26 June
      • Works to V7 - Starting Monday 5 July
      • Corporate headquarter buildings
      • Steve Murphy Retires
      • Freedom To Speak Up (August update)
      • V7 Update
      • Use of V7 from Monday 6 September 2021
      • Hybrid Working Survey - V7, Babbage House (LIP), Hollins Park House and staff previously based at Burlington House.
      • V7 - Electric charging spaces
      • Shine Night Walk for Cancer Research UK
      • Freedom to Speak Up (September update)
      • Are your contact details up to date?
      • Macmillan Marathon 26 mile hike
      • Three Peaks Challenge
      • Level 1 Procurement Skills Development Accreditation
      • Our Finance and Procurement Department have been shortlisted in the UHA 2021!
      • Avoid car parking fines at Liverpool innovation Park
      • Hybrid working update
      • Corporate Management Group
      • Continue to work at home
      • Goodbye to Jon
      • Pre-Election Guidance
      • Corporate recruitment process changes
      • Hybrid working and the review of corporate buildings
      • Hybrid working and review of corporate buildings - communication sessions
      • Hybrid working and the review of corporate buildings
      • Consultation on moves within corporate buildings and hybrid working
      • Hybrid working FAQs have been updated
      • Hybrid working - consultation one to one process
      • Consultation feedback sessions
      • Consultation period closes on 12 August 2022
      • Consultation period closes today - Friday 12 August 2022
      • Familiarisation visits to V7 building and Puma Court
      • Important information for your office move
      • Delay to access passes - Hollins Park House
      • Hollins Park House information
      • Moves into Hollins Park House
      • LIP 'landlord white cards'
      • Joanne Scoltock retired on 18 September after 36 years in nursing
      • Congratulations to Tom Matthews-Regan!
      • Congratulations to Yasmin Majeed!
      • Congratulations to Bernie Rochford MBE
      • Access to V7
      • Lorna Green is retiring!
      • Elaine Wilkinson retires
      • Healthcare Financial Management Awards (HFMA) shortlist
      • Invitation to hybrid working review sessions
      • Congratulations to The Occupational Health and Wellbeing Team
      • Healthcare Financial Management Diversity and Inclusion Award
      • Payroll and Pensions teams unavailable on 2 February
      • Good luck Geoff Springer!
      • Chris Peake is retiring!
      • How Communications can help you
      • Estates utilisation review
      • Trust shortlisted for two British HR Awards
      • British HR Award Success
      • Lynn King is retiring!
      • In the News
      • ​​​​​​​Joan Carvell is retiring!
      • Occupational Health Physiotherapy - service delivery update
      • EPMA business continuity laptops using NWB EPMA system
      • Empactis: Action required for staff
      • Have you joined our staff Facebook group?
      • Occupational Health Service accreditation
      • Farewell to Berenice Gibson
      • Help staff who don't regularly access their emails
      • Happy 80th birthday to Beryl Moyers
      • Event booking form
      • Well done to our Accredited Neurodiversity Champions
      • Best wishes to Alison Bacon
      • Congratulations Michael Crilly
      • Freedom to Speak Up Champions visit
      • Not another staff survey…
      • Newsletter update over Christmas and New Year 2023
      • ESR unavailable
      • Our CQC Team are here to help
      • News from our CQC Team
      • Twelve months of the Safeguarding Duty Hub
      • Have you shared your feedback?
      • Make it Mersey Cares in 2024!
      • Pauline Copland has retired!
      • Help us to support looked after children with our Give a Gift to a Child in Care Appeal
      • Infection Prevention and Control Contract Award
      • Hollins Park House lift - UPDATE!
      • Breaking news
      • Occupational Health: changes in April
      • Sad news – Ellis Di Caprio
      • Update to room booking system
      • A fond farewell and thank you to our Liverpool Place Medicines Management Team
      • Relationships at Work Policy
      • National recognition for inspiring cyber security professional
      • Fond farewell to the Cheshire and Merseyside Resilience Hub
      • Occupational Health (OPAS-G2)
      • Community Nursing Simulation Collaboration showcase
      • Coaching celebration event
      • The Life Rooms 8th birthday
      • 8th PROMs Research Conference (20 June 2024)
      • Communications roadshow
      • MC Magazine survey
      • Media enquiries or a visit from a high profile visitor
      • Potential delays in Southport due to road closures
      • NHS Supply Chain accounts merge – online ordering
      • HSJ Patient Safety Awards
      • Count Me In roll out begins at the Annual General Meeting
      • Finance Department retain level 3 accreditation
      • Estates and Facilities - Team of the Year Award at IHEEM Healthcare and Estates Awards
      • IM mark World Mental Health Day with Tea and Talk
      • Best use of digital recognition for The Life Rooms
      • A huge well done Okey!
      • Sad news - Julie Andrews
      • Occupational Health re-location update
      • Recruitment re-brand: we need your views!
      • Procurement Act 2023
      • Our wellbeing advent calendar has a new look and feel this year!
      • Mersey Care chaplain Imam Fahmid Syed delivers a short message for New Year 2025
      • YourInsights - Our People dashboard now available
      • News on the go
      • Health and safety hints and tips
      • Exciting opportunity to attend the mental health technology event
      • Flexible working pilot (TWSS and IM colleagues)
      • ASPIRE – new leadership development programme
      • SCHEDULED WORK NOTIFICATION - EMIS Mobile and EMIS-X Mobile
      • FOI Team of the Year 2025
      • Northern Health Science Alliance Top 400 women
      • Facilities management achieves high PLACE scores
      • EPMA and PSC go-live
      • Feel Better Spring 2025 programme
      • Health and Safety monthly hints and tips - February
      • Amendments to Bank payroll and reduced opening hours this Easter
      • Building the Foundations of Experience: Patient Experience Week 28 April to 2 May
      • Loop training sessions!
      • Two fine fellows
      • Change to information needed for taxi bookings
      • Liverpool Clinical Laboratories Industrial Action
      • Fraud Information Alert
  • Clinical
    • Clinical
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    • Advanced Clinical Practice
      • Advanced Clinical Practice
      • Our Advanced Clinical Practice Team
      • Becoming an Advanced Clinical Practitioner at Mersey Care
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    • Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
      • Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
      • About AHPs
      • Training and development
      • Resources
      • Allied Health Professionals Day
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      • AHP electronic job planning
      • Greener AHP
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      • Bank staff back pay updates
        • Bank staff back pay updates
        • Archived messages
      • Temporary staffing policy (HR40) FAQs
        • Temporary staffing policy (HR40) FAQs
        • FAQs for roster managers
        • FAQs for bank workers
      • EPMA go-live information
    • Clinical Strategy, Clinical Senate and Clinical Transformation Group
    • Caring for our carers
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    • Community Care Division
      • Community Care Division
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      • Community Equipment and Disability Advisory Service (CEDAS)
      • District Nursing
        • District Nursing
        • Care Home Contingency Planning Guide
      • Medical Devices Department
      • Mental Health Services 18 to 25 Transformation
        • Mental Health Services 18 to 25 Transformation
        • Introduction
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        • Comms and engagement
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      • Pressure Ulcers
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      • Yellow Card (MHRA)
      • Liverpool Health Visitors – Geographical Model
      • Integrated Community Equipment Services (ICES)
      • Talking Therapies
      • Learning and improvement updates
      • Skin Care Service
      • Single Point of Access Knowsley Consultation
        • Single Point of Access Knowsley Consultation
        • Background
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        • FAQs
        • Your wellbeing
        • Previous communications
        • Key dates
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      • UTC and WIC Consultation Operational times
        • UTC and WIC Consultation Operational times
        • Summary
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      • Children and Young People's Intensive Support Team
        • Children and Young People's Intensive Support Team
        • Introduction
        • Delivery models
        • People and Development
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        • Communication and engagement
        • Finance
        • Business and Intelligence / Data
        • IT and digital
        • Estates
      • NEWS2 (National Early Warning Score RCP 2019)
      • Long COVID demobilisation consultation
        • Long COVID demobilisation consultation
        • Summary
        • Reason for change
        • The consultation process
        • Timeline
        • One-to-ones
        • Support
        • FAQs
        • Useful documents
      • Psychological Professions Leadership Redesign: Community Division
    • Community Care news
      • Community Care news
      • Farewell to Wendy Knowles
      • ​Farewell to Liz Marsh Receptionist at Old Swan Walk-In Centre
      • Telehealth team receive the community division's first QRV Good Plus rating
      • Working collaboratively with Claire House
      • Southport and Formby Community Services mailboxes
      • Patient Transport Service
      • Southport and Formby staff – Lateral Flow Testing
      • SIRS – referral forms
      • Re-naming Stoddart House
      • Tissue Viability Nurse of the Year Category in the BJN Awards
      • Mersey Care Assessment Team and new CHC referral form
      • Congratulations to Margaret Alderman on your retirement
      • Farewell to Caroline Vitty
      • Therapy, Inpatients and Equipment Services (TIES)
      • Changes to District Nursing in South Liverpool
      • Community Services Division – helping new colleagues to settle in
      • Updated contact numbers for the District Nursing Service
      • Telehealth trio
      • Good luck Nicky Ore!
      • Sad news
      • Congratulations to Colette Palin
      • Liverpool Community Equipment Service - Business Continuity
      • Sexual Health Service IT Roll out Business Continuity
      • An incredible 40 years of service
      • NMP Prescription Pads
      • Updated NHS CHC referral form
      • Safeguarding Dutyline technical difficulties
      • Car keys found at Queens Drive Clinic
      • Taking a blood sample? The Pathology team strictly need 3 patient’s identifiers
      • Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon fundraiser
      • Renaming Stoddart House
      • Temporary closure of St Chads Community Dental Clinic
      • Telehealth team 'Wear it Pink'
      • Mersey Care’s sexual health services
      • South Sefton Health Visitors are now working on a Saturday!
      • Evacuation changes to CHP Buildings
      • Project Food Bank Parcel 2021 - Bootle Health Centre
      • ‘Our Croxteth’ Community Fund Open Event
      • Happy retirement Karen
      • Paediatric ESR Testing
      • Wishing John Gibson a Happy Retirement
      • Winter in focus
      • Fitness Man Dan hits the airwaves
      • Thank you for your ongoing support
      • Winter in focus
      • Liam Stowell talks about mental health for Blue Monday
      • Additional phlebotomy clinics now available
      • Change to Wound and Skin Care Policies
      • Our Croxteth £50K community project giveaway!
      • Changes to paediatric phlebotomy from 1 April
      • Sefton Council - SEND Parent and Carer Consultation
      • Care home cell
      • Sefton Partnership Briefing – The Year Ahead
      • A review of our winter plan
      • Heartfelt thank you to Daniella Cody
      • Southport and Formby Services celebrate one year with the Trust
      • Malinko pilot
      • Sefton schools come together to talk mental health
      • PAT testing of all portable appliances
      • Liverpool Innovation Park (LIP) car park
      • #BeFreeofHepC
      • FREED eating disorder service extends to Sefton
      • Whalley Jubilee Events
      • Guest blog for National Diabetes Week
      • Knowsley Walk In Centres migrate to EMIS
      • Sefton Community Insight tool
      • Southport Stoma Open Day
      • IMPaCT Launch event - cancelled
      • Happy retirement Ann England
      • Temporary closure of Norris Green Hub (admin building only)
      • Happy retirement Louise Johnston!
      • Maternal Mental Health Service - Silver Birch Hubs
      • British Transplant Games
      • Community Equipment Advisory Services across Liverpool and Sefton are renamed
      • Southport and Formby EMIS migration
      • Carmel Blake 40 years continuous NHS service
      • New parking ticket process for Sefton Place
      • Knowsley Aids and Adaptations Service contact details update
      • Maureen Lunt is retiring!
      • Catherine Gillespie is retiring!
      • The communications team get shortlisted for another award!
      • Knowsley Falls and Fracture prevention service – Information for Internal Referrals
      • The Women in HealthTech Show
      • Macmillan Fundraising
      • Falls Week 19 September
      • Promoting our services
      • Liverpool Community Respiratory Team trial study
      • Parents Survey: Talking about Mental Health
      • Liverpool Community Alcohol Service (LCAS)
      • Hepatitis C Drive Day
      • Sad news - Jill Pendleton
      • Telehealth appear on innovation podcast
      • Change of contact number – The Bridges Learning Centre
      • Building Bonds and Attachments (BABS)
      • Change of contact number - Warrington Learning Disability Team
      • Temporary closure of Nutrgrove Villa Community Dental Clinic
      • Fundraising for Cancer Research
      • Fax referrals no longer available for Treatment Rooms
      • Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services Up to 25 years
      • Warrington Recovery Team
      • Pressure ulcer awareness day
      • Byron Ward cake sale
      • A Day for Collaboration and Conversation – Silver Birch Hubs Service Launch Event
      • Well for Winter event
      • Victoria Harper is retiring
      • Helping to prevent falls in the community
      • Christmas Jumper Day success!
      • 0-19 Sefton Council Healthy Child Programme (up to 25 with SEND)
      • Amendments to RiO Outcome Measure Forms: 14 December 2022
      • Integrated Mersey Palliative Care Team on BBC North West Tonight
      • Katy Wafer takes to the airwaves
      • Change of contact details – Knowsley BABS
      • Walk In Centres *6pm update*
      • Walk In Centre update
      • CYP Work Experience Skills Lab
      • Christmas lunch celebrations
      • Liverpool Live Radio
      • ​​​​​​​Sue Roseboro has retired!
      • Knowsley Falls and Fracture Prevention Service - update
      • Pauline Jessup is retiring!
      • Eric Morris raising awareness for Long COVID Services
      • Knowsley Immunisation Team – new contact number
      • NHS Talking Therapies
      • Sad news – Paula O’Hara
      • Updated contact numbers
      • Maternal Mental health service celebrate one year!
      • Updated contact numbers
      • Walk In Centres information campaign to help patients
      • Lymphoedema Awareness Week - 6 to 10 March
      • Updated contact numbers
      • 02 Outage - Reliance Protect Update
      • Lung Health Check Roadshow comes to Litherland
      • Our second cohort of Community Internship Students
      • Ann Matthews is retiring
      • Community Services star on Granada Reports
      • Fizz Free February
      • Sefton Local Offer Live
      • GlucoRx HCT Blood Glucose Meter
      • Jo Nash takes to the airwaves
      • Val Newey has retired!
      • Sefton SEND Information event
      • Updated contact numbers
      • Lesley Mooney receives an award for her support to students!
      • Integrated Care Team
      • New Phlebotomy service coming for Southport and Formby
      • New Sefton Young People and Families Substance Misuse Service
      • Liverpool Immunisation Team
      • Walk In Centres information campaign
      • All the best Susan Kelly!
      • Jane Kenny is retiring!
      • After 40 years, Marianne Rood has retired
      • Maureen Keelan has retired
      • Jane Perry is retiring after 38 years
      • Congratulations to CMAGIC
      • Hope and Recovery Centre, Peasley Cross
      • Everton Road Community Dental Clinic - temporary closure
      • Updated contact numbers
      • Pain Clinic celebrates 15th Anniversary
      • ​​​​​​​Dr Ruth O’Shaughnessy has co-written a book on attachment theory!
      • World Social Work Day
      • Cut off times for samples reaching the laboratory – Easter weekend
      • ‘Back to school’ immunisation resources
      • Congratulations to Peter Almond
      • Continuing Healthcare Team (CHC) across Liverpool and Sefton
      • 350 Nicotine Management Level 2 eLearning
      • ​​​​​​​Sefton Place
      • Riverside raffle
      • Happy retirement Jean Clare
      • Stand up to Parkinson’s challenge
      • Mary Bradley is retiring
      • St Helens Immunisation Team away day
      • Hilary Garrett visits Community Care
      • Queen's Nurse applications are open
      • Chris Beltran has retired!
      • ​​​​​​​Municipal Journal Achievement Awards
      • Knowsley Youth Offending Service rated ‘Good’
      • Mental Health Awareness Week – Andy shares his story
      • Prioritising mental health
      • Schools Link with our Children’s Mental Health Support Teams
      • Nell Shore is retiring
      • World ADHD congress
      • Amendments to Rio Outcome Measure Forms: 30 May 2023
      • Perinatal Mental Health programme
      • 20th Annual Specialist Community Practitioner Masterclass
      • Exciting opportunity - Physiotherapy and Podiatry Apprenticeships
      • Amendments to Rio Outcome Measure Forms
      • Building Attachments and Bonds Service, Sefton: Relationships are Everything!
      • LCL Clinical Immunology - update
      • Team bonding and shared passions
      • Dr Clare Ledingham is retiring
      • Tackling serious and organised crime
      • Phlebotomy Services
      • Long COVID Service
      • Susan Donovan is retiring
      • Warrington Innovation Award win
      • Sad news - Barb McGee
      • World breastfeeding week
      • Longmoor House - garden in bloom
      • Denise Woods is retiring
      • Queen’s Nursing Institute - National survey
      • Ann Gill is retiring!
      • Carole Westhead is retiring
      • Amendments to Rio Outcome Measure Forms: 29 August 2023
      • Relocation of Liverpool Community Equipment Service
      • CAMHS - Crisis Response Team
      • Silver Birch Hub on ITV Granada
      • Hope 100 Walk
      • National Falls Week
      • Liverpool Community Respiratory Team
      • Breastfeeding awareness week
      • HSJ Award Win
      • Places available for Wound Management Study Day!
      • Bernadette Powell is retiring
      • Debs Attwater has retired
      • Amendments to Rio Outcome Measure Forms: 25 September 2023
      • Phone delays for Community Equipment Service
      • Good luck Marie
      • Macmillan coffee morning
      • Consultation on youth vaping
      • Amendments to Rio Outcome Measure Forms: 12 October 2023
      • Telehealth Hub features in Hospital Management Asia
      • Sefton Building Attachment and Bonds service (BABS)
      • Service realignment
      • Solving together
      • Opening up conversations in our perinatal services
      • Allerton and Aigburth District Nurse Team stage Christmas in November
      • Celebrating 40 years of service
      • Crisis Response Team: Home Treatment Offer
      • Tribute to Deb Simon
      • Listening and working in partnership with young people
      • A reception with His Majesty
      • Name changes for ICRAS Teams
      • BABS in St Helens
      • Mersey Reach enters final phase of development
      • Nebuliser shortage
      • Happy retirement Julie Whitehead
      • Our winter campaign on Greatest Hits Radio
      • Building Attachment and Bonds Service (BABS) - St Helens
      • Perinatal Mental Health programme updated with inclusive language
      • Funds raised by Knowsley children in care team to support young people
      • Help improve our phlebotomy services
      • Long COVID Team to launch app
      • Sefton Parent Carer Forum SEND Awards
      • How we’ve been supporting our young people this Children’s Mental Health Week
      • Wheelchair repair line currently down  
      • Welcome to our Community Internship/MECO Students Cohort 4
      • Community Nursing Services EMIS Web Migration - Knowsley District Nursing and Community Matrons
      • Continuing Health Care Assessments services moving to ICB
      • New Rio Patient Reported Outcome Measure Forms: 27 February 2024
      • Wound product formulary update
      • Liverpool Community Respiratory Team
      • Community Care division - SPQ and SCPHN apprenticeship information sessions
      • Lisa Marshall receives Chief Superintendent’s Commendation from Merseyside Police
      • Intensive Support Team launch
      • Remembering Su Bellion
      • MJ Achievement Awards
      • Liverpool and Sefton NHS all age continuing care team
      • Employment Support Advisors
      • Linda Howard is retiring
      • Farewell Dr Brian Johnson
      • Rob Lepper is retiring
      • Positive Practice in Mental Health awards nomination
      • Congratulations to Ian Matthias
      • Noreen Clarke is retiring
      • Shooting Pain
      • Talking Therapies University and Young People’s Champion
      • Spotlight on pain clinic success stories
      • Glen Brandwood is retiring
      • Ten out of ten for the Mersey Care Dental Service
      • Case study of a first-time principal investigator: Colette Palin
      • 40 years of service for Bev Cashmore
      • The Buckland Review of Autism Employment explained
      • Thanks to Fiona Brodie from the Autism Spectrum Condition service
      • Patient group directions training
      • Please return your personal safety device if no longer required
      • New app for Long COVID patients
      • Utilising personal safety devices during current IT issues
      • Increasing awareness of vaccinations in our communities
      • Recognising the Deteriorating Child (POPS and Sepsis) training
      • Patient Safety Learning Event (Sefton / CYP Families)
      • Dentistry ‘a calling, not a career’
      • Your Voice Your Change mega conversations
      • Update to the Verification of Expected Death template on EMIS
      • ​​​​​​​Happy retirement Angela
      • Knowsley Mental Health Support Team:
      • CYPMHS Response Team celebrated 12 months since they launched
      • Liverpool District Nurse Out of Hours Team move
      • Increasing awareness of vaccinations in our communities
      • Garden makeover
      • Enteral feeding pump training
      • Changing the perception of pain
      • Liverpool CAMHS name change
      • Tissue Viability Nurses: Lower leg templates sessions
      • Safeguarding and pressure ulcers sessions
      • BABS in Warrington
      • MSK St Helens Community Appointment Day
      • New DVT pathway accessible via Mersey Care WICs and UTCs
      • Superintendent Recognition Award
      • New process for safeguarding pressure ulcers
      • Aintree LOSS Tier 3 Weight Management service
      • Training sessions on how to implement PURPOSE-T
      • New training: Child and Young Persons Trauma Informed Care and MUST for Community Services eLearning
      • Pat is retiring!
      • Join our Building Attachment and Bonds Service (BABS) Halton launch
      • Relationships are everything
      • Help improve our phlebotomy services by taking a short survey
      • MSK Knowsley Community Appointment Day
      • Dear Merseyside
      • Queen's Nursing title for Laura Jones
      • 0-19 Public Health Service
      • SCHEDULED WORK NOTIFICATION - EMIS Web for Community
      • Knowsley Bladder and Bowel
      • BBC North West Tonight visited our MSK Community Appointment Day in Huyton
      • New click and collect service for equipment
      • Safer sleep – a partnership approach to preventing sudden, unexpected deaths of infants
      • Cut off sample times for Christmas and New year
      • People help the people - Southdene Community Centre
      • Sad News for the Community Care Division
      • Celebrating success: Liverpool FNP hosts festive event and annual review
      • Happy retirement Sue!
      • Quick action helps vulnerable patient
      • Sad News - Allen Crocker
      • Changing the perception of pain
      • Apprenticeships for District Nurses, School Nurses and Health Visitors
      • Expression of interest - Sefton Diabetes Service Team Leader (Band 7)
      • New short term loan option launched for equipment
      • Congratulations on celebrating 42 years of nursing in the NHS Elaine McCormick!
      • Huyton Hey Road temporary car park closure
      • Saying goodbye to the last resident at Leonard Cheshire Home
      • Celebrating Bernie Malone’s remarkable career and retirement
      • Partnership with Edge Hill University Award nomination
      • New SALT referral form
      • CMAGIC transforms into Transcend
      • First Mother and Baby mental health unit, Seren Lodge
      • Liverpool 0-19 service relaunched
      • Dementia: Admiral Nurses in Halton and Knowsley
      • Webinars: Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week (5 to 11 May)
      • Webinars from our Mental Health Support Team
      • If you have a Personal Safety Device, remember to use it
      • Autism and mental health training
      • St Helens BABS (Building Attachment and Bonds Service)
      • Supporting Mental Health Awareness in Schools
      • Community pop ups during World Mental Health Awareness Week
      • Dying Matters Awareness Week, 5 - 11 May
      • Button Battery Safety
      • Dementia Awareness Week 2025
      • Autism Assessments
      • Reading Rights: Books Build a Brighter Future
      • Dementia Action Week
      • Halton SEND Strategy
    • Death certification
      • Death certification
      • Referring to the Medical Examiner and the Death certification process
      • Medical Examiner referral forms
      • Local Medical Examiner (ME) contact details
    • EMIS Migration
    • Falls Prevention
    • I'm not here to be abused
    • Insulin safety
    • Infection Prevention and Control
      • Infection Prevention and Control
      • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
      • Infection prevention and control manual and appendices
      • Care plans and pathways
      • Posters
      • Outbreak information
      • Training
      • IPC information and documentation
      • Infection prevention and control news
      • Infection prevention and control (IPC) champions
        • Infection prevention and control (IPC) champions
        • Divisions
        • IPC education
          • IPC education
          • Influenza
          • Vaccines
          • Bare below the elbow (BBE)
          • Urinary Tract Infections (UTI)
          • MRSA
          • Useful information
          • E-bug
        • Role of the IPC Champion
        • IPC events
    • Learning Disability and Autism Clinical Network
    • Learning disability and autism resources - all staff
      • Learning disability and autism resources - all staff
      • Ask, Listen, Do
      • LeDeR
      • Green Light Toolkit
      • Reasonable Adjustments
      • Neurodivergent Champions and Learning Disability Champions
      • Dynamic Support Tool and Register
      • Physical Health
      • Autism and Learning Disability Training
      • Research
      • STOMP and STAMP
      • Autism Services
      • Other Resources
    • Mental Capacity Law
      • Mental Capacity Law
      • Mental Capacity Act
        • Mental Capacity Act
        • Doctor's Mental Capacity Act toolkit
          • Doctor's Mental Capacity Act toolkit
          • Terms of Reference
          • Common obstacles, challenges and barriers
          • Source resources
      • Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)
    • Mental Health Care Division
      • Mental Health Care Division
      • Mental Health Care news
      • Community Excellence Transformation Programme
        • Community Excellence Transformation Programme
        • Access and egress from service
        • Intervention based care
        • Care Programme Approach to Community Mental Health Framework
        • Patient access times
        • Communications, Engagement and Digital
        • Workforce
        • Community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team
        • Outpatients
        • Older adults
        • 18 to 25 pathway
        • Lived experience pathway
        • Questions and Answers
      • Inpatients
      • Physical health
      • Urgent mental health care
        • Urgent mental health care
        • Core 24
        • Urgent Care Hub
        • Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team
        • Liaison and Diversion
      • Mossley Hill updates
        • Mossley Hill updates
        • Organisational change
      • All statutory Mental Health Act forms must be completed on Thalamos (for services using Rio only)
    • Mental Health Care news
      • Mental Health Care news
      • Cheshire and Merseyside Resilience Hub
      • Ambition Sefton
      • Local Services Division absence reporting
      • Finding your Local Division On Call documents via YourSpace
      • Older people’s complex care service
      • Mossley Hill goodwill gesture
      • Mossley Hill Hospital Update
      • Garden Makeover at Specialist Dementia Unit
      • Mental health text support for people living in Liverpool and Sefton
      • Farewell to Paul Hardiman
      • Call for clinical supervisors
      • Brave the shave
      • Postgraduate Certificate Applied Psychological Interventions (Pg.Cert. API)
      • Ambition Sefton
      • CCGs invite residents to attend virtual Big Chats
      • Site power down at Clock View
      • Farewell to Rita Bedson
      • New dementia garden
      • Show support for Brunswick ward's Marie Curie charity event
      • Update on new mental health hospital for Liverpool
      • Broadoak Car park will be closed due to re-surfacing at the weekend
      • Broadoak car park closure
      • Windsor House Staff Welcome Workshop
      • Happy retirement Cath
      • The Broadoak car park will be closed for the final time, from 8pm on Friday evening
      • Are you a mental health professional in Liverpool?
      • Change to RiO form
      • The Broadoak car park will be closed on Saturday evening
      • Hark! A new name for older people’s unit
      • Andrew Garrity’s Retirement
      • Sad news - Paul Foy
      • Introducing our newly appointed Freedom to Speak Up Guardian
      • Happy retirement Jackie Scott
      • Introducing the new Named Professional Safeguarding Adults for Local Division
      • Goodbye and thank you to our Liverpool Supported Living Service colleagues
      • Cycling for Broadoak
      • Views wanted for improving mental health and wellbeing
      • Farewell to Rose Dritseli
      • Reflecting on the Jubilee weekend
      • Norris Green Hub to reopen from 25 July
      • Mersey Care end dormitory wards in Liverpool
      • Happy retirement and happy birthday to Nita Moore
      • St Helen's Recovery Team - days out!
      • Dr Mark Allington is retiring!
      • Clock View power outage
      • 20 Years of Chart Marked at South Sefton Neighbourhood Centre
      • Clock View has been shortlisted!
      • Fundraising Nurses
      • Lower My Drinking App
      • Sad news - Sue Molyneux
      • Updated contact details for Knowsley Mental Health Service
      • Step forward - widening access for ethnic communities
      • Brittney’s story and Sefton Crisis Café
      • Amendments to RiO Outcome Measure Forms - 8 February 2023
      • Justine Nakimuli - Freedom to Speak Up Guardian
      • Mossley Hill ground breaking
      • Is Psychiatry working? – a BBC Radio Four report
      • Clock View Hospital Architecture Today Awards winner
      • Mental Health Triage car – BBC Radio Merseyside
      • Nutrition and Hydration Week celebrations
      • Happy 80th Birthday to Rita McGarry!
      • NHS ex armed forces mental health and wellbeing services
      • Congratulations to Indira
      • Suicide prevention expert joins Mersey Care
      • Help shape the future of mental health research
      • Coronation Celebrations Heys Court and Fern Ward
      • Ian Gough is retiring
      • Clock View in Architecture Today
      • Carers week celebrations at Fern ward, Leigh Moss
      • Hep C elimination - well done to our addictions team!
      • Michelle Allen is retiring
      • Sad news - Ian Gough
      • Congratulations Emily
      • Compliments for support with training programme
      • Debt respite scheme (breathing space)
      • Volunteer of the month - June 2023
      • Chris Blundell is retiring after 47 years in the NHS!
      • Clock View compliment
      • Message from North West Mental Health Team
      • Mossley Hill: You called it!
      • Bloomin lovely
      • Thanks to everyone who supports Mersey Care’s medical student education
      • Congratulations to Sofina
      • Perinatal Mental Health Awareness Training
      • Adult Community Mental Health Patient Reported Outcome Measures
      • Onam celebration
      • Tony Rimmer has retired
      • Ruby Wax officially opens our Neuromodulation Suite
      • Stephen Halsall has retired
      • Ann-Marie Foster has retired after 45 years in the NHS
      • Simulation session at Neuromodulation suite
      • Changes to alignment of teams across mental health urgent care services
      • Farewell Linda Jones
      • Sarah McCormack is retiring!
      • Letter to all staff - Christmas 2023
      • Welcome opportunity to lead the way in developing a patient safety dashboard
      • Seven day working
      • Pioneering Mental Health Triage Response team
      • Positive partnership for the Self Harm Pathway
      • Neuromodulation service
      • Congratulations to Brook Place!
      • Hot off the press, new research!
      • Life’s a beach (hut) at Mossley Hill
      • Designing community services for people with borderline personality disorder
      • Positive visit from Health Service Safety Investigations Body
      • Right Care, Right Person (RCRP)
      • Well done to our mental health liaison team at LHCH!
      • Urgent mental health care services shortlisted for HSJ award
      • Health and wellbeing treats for service users and staff
      • Dementia Action Week at Fern Ward
      • Liaison and Diversion Team, including Reconnect, awarded
      • Margaret O'Neill is retiring
      • Thank you Lloyd
      • Inpatient MaST Showcase
      • Hartley Hospital space utilisation survey
      • New community garden project with Warrington Borough Council
      • Liverpool and Kirkby Memory Service
      • Award winning Trainee Nurse Associate
      • Hazel Lim retires after 36 years in the NHS
      • Podcast with our Personality Disorder Service
      • Sad news - Toni Moore
      • Chief Nursing Officer from Ministry of Health, Uganda, visits the Trust
      • We need help from all staff in Mental Health Care Division
      • Topping time at the new Mossley Hill
      • Katie Taylor, Head of Nursing leaves after 22 years
      • Special Thank You
      • Sad news – Roy Shuttleworth
      • Your Voice Your Change mega conversations
      • See the high points of Mossley Hill
      • Pg. Cert – expressions of interest (Mental Health Division)
      • Important request from Personal Safety Team
      • Important changes to Leigh Moss email address
      • Changes to mental health emergency and urgent referrals
      • Norway visitors to our mental health services
      • Congratulations to our Mental Health Triage and Response Team on winning the new Seni Lewis HSJ Patient Safety Award
      • Statutory Mental Health Act forms must be completed on Thalamos (for services using Rio only)
      • Sir Julian Hartley visits the Trust
      • The end of an era as Dr Mercadillo retires
      • World Mental Health Day, 10 October 2024 drop-in event for Trust staff
      • Sefton and Kirkby Early Interventions Team (EIT) recovery stories event
      • World Mental Health Day 2024
      • Psychiatric Clinical Decision Unit
      • All statutory Mental Health Act forms must be completed on Thalamos (for services using Rio only)
      • Making healthy connections
      • First Predominantly Deaf Peer/Social Group in Halton
      • Future Mossley Hill Ward Managers meet Mossley Hill wards
      • Two much loved retire and returners
      • Chief Executive’s visits to services
      • Check out what Sheridan Ward have been up to!
      • Visit from Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
      • Peer Support Worker - Readiness for teams
      • Best wishes Mark Sadler
      • Domestic abuse process - Mental Health Care Division
      • Leadership arrangements update
      • Calling all community mental health colleagues
      • Our Chief Executive Officer visits
      • Eating Disorders Awareness Week
      • Young Carer’s Award for Step Forward Psychology Service
      • So proud of our staff
      • Perinatal Mental Health Awareness
      • Career takes a Northern turn
      • Congratulations on your retirement
      • New roles for senior leaders
      • NHS England visit for Mental Health Incubator Programme
      • Goodbye to community addictions colleagues
      • We've won the Liaison and Diversion and Reconnect contract!
      • Urgent Care Mental Health Services away day success
      • Care Quality Commission visit
      • Mental Capacity Assessment - Simplified
      • Mental Health Awareness Week events
      • Dietitians Week is 2 to 6 June 2025
      • Step Forward Request for Service Form
    • Mental Health Services 18 to 25 Transformation
    • Mental Health Law
      • Mental Health Law
      • Mental Health Act
    • Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Community Provider Collaborative
    • Nutrition and hydration
      • Nutrition and hydration
      • Dysphagia
      • Nutrition and Hydration Week 2023
      • Special diet request form
    • Palliative and End of Life Care for Adults (PEOLC)
      • Palliative and End of Life Care for Adults (PEOLC)
      • Identifying patients in last year of life
      • Advance Care Planning
      • Care in the last days and hours of life
      • Care after death and learning from death
      • Bereavement
      • Useful links for education and training
    • Personal Safety Devices
    • Physical health in-reach hub
    • Psychological professions
      • Psychological professions
      • HCPC Registration
      • Accreditation with professional bodies
      • Uniform standardisation
      • National workforce guidance and vision
      • Services in which our Psychological Professions work
    • Radar
    • Resuscitation information
      • Resuscitation information
      • Do Not Attempt Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) FAQs
      • Immediate Life Support (ILS) training
      • Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS) training
      • Updated resuscitation guidelines for 2021
    • Secure Care Division
      • Secure Care Division
      • Become a mental health social worker!
      • Introducing Linden Ward
        • Introducing Linden Ward
        • Message from Mark Latham about Byron Ward
      • Latest Building Award Successes
      • Mental Health Act Department
        • Mental Health Act Department
        • Easy Read Information Leaflets
        • Rights Leaflets
        • Other Documents
        • Guidance and Training Events
        • Mental Health Act
        • Deprivation of Liberties
        • Mental Health Tribunals
        • Ministry of Justice
        • Statutory and Other Forms
        • Other Information
      • PACIS training
      • Salute to Whalley
      • SLD resources
        • SLD resources
        • Easy Read Resources
        • Service User Electronic Equipment
      • Speech and Language Therapy (Secure and LD)
      • Archived content – our Whalley site closed in March 2024
        • Archived content – our Whalley site closed in March 2024
        • Frequently Asked Questions
        • Inpatient Vacancies with Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
        • Message from Steve Newton - updated for Whalley site
        • Next steps as part of the Whalley transfer of services organisational change process - message from Steve Newton
        • UPDATE FROM STEVE NEWTON AND MICHELE McGEE - 9 January 2024
        • Staff engagement sessions
        • Information from Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
    • Secure Care news
      • Secure Care news
      • Latest Learning Disability and Autism bulletin
      • Food service times at Whalley
      • Whalley absence reporting
      • Hot weather measures
      • Latest Learning Disability and Autism bulletin
      • Herbstones at Whalley marks the Euros
      • Herbstones menu for the Euros
      • Centre for Perfect Care bitesize QI digital training
      • It's Nutrition and Hydration Week 2021
      • Whalley site - official visitors
      • Herbstones Euros Menu
      • Importance of lateral flow tests
      • Whalley Vaccinations
      • Whalley Strides with Pride
      • Petrina Hounslow Retires
      • Whalley site – a message from Julia Musker
      • Whalley’s PRIDE
      • Community Thanks for Horticultural Team
      • Associate Director for Learning Disability: Three month secondment opportunity
      • Margaret Brown retires
      • August update from Julia Musker
      • Latest Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • She braved that shave!
      • Message from Steve Newton, Chief Operating Officer
      • Face to face ward based engagement sessions
      • Amanda McBride RIP
      • Student Teaching Session: Learning Disability and Health Inequalities
      • The latest Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • Rebecca has been bringing together her local community
      • LSU ground breaking
      • Apprenticeship Success
      • Work is starting on the new low secure hospital at the front of Maghull Health Park
      • Over £500 raised for FOP
      • Message to Whalley staff
      • Whalley Remembrance Parade 2021: 6 November
      • Formal consultation update
      • Whalley Remembers
      • New Names for New Specialist Dementia Unit
      • Koestler Awards 2021
      • Maghull Health Park site access
      • When the going gets tough
      • Email sent on behalf of Steve Newton
      • The Carol Service That Went…Right
      • Best wishes to Dr Panna
      • Message from Julia Musker
      • Latest learning disabilities and autism bulletin
      • Remembering Whalley’s Jack Anwyl
      • Whalley site access – reminder
      • HERBSTONES – come dine with us!
      • Whalley retention premium
      • Auden Unit - LFC tour
      • Auden Unit - Garden revamp
      • Update from the Whalley Safety Huddle
      • Whalley site phone migration
      • Resurfacing the roads around The Circle in Whalley
      • Message from Steve Newton
      • Houses on Mitton Road
      • Celebration events
      • Learning disabilities and autism bulletin
      • Latest learning disabilities and autism bulletin
      • Mayoral Award for Ashworth Horticulture Team
      • Celebrating a year
      • Whalley update
        • Whalley update
        • Whalley Retraction
      • Celebrating the Century in Whalley
      • Meet the Director: Monday lunchtime
      • Wearing of face masks in entry receptions for high, medium and low secure services
      • Whalley Celebrates St Luke’s
      • Whalley site retraction and the organisational change processes.
      • Funeral of former Trust Governor
      • Communication: Ashworth Hospital Business Continuity Status
      • Message from the Leadership Team at Whalley
      • Louise, our mighty hiker!
      • Staff focus groups
      • Marathon run for CALM
      • The latest Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • Secure Division changes
      • Best wishes to Whalley’s Tony Livesey
      • Carmel Brunt is retiring!
      • Dan Daniels run for Autism Initiative
      • CQC compliance boards update
      • Maghull Health Park Security Barrier
      • Fiona Gibson retires
      • Message from Steve Newton
      • Ward Champions visit Aspen Wood
      • Secure Care Division wins contract for HMP Altcourse
      • Large Green Property Boxes - Ashworth Wards and Departments
      • Announcement of CQC inspection at Ashworth Hospital
      • Best wishes to Dave McKenna
      • Rowan View shortlisted again!
      • Support Maplewood for a good cause
      • Rowan View award success
      • Incentive offer - Aspen Wood
      • Fundraising for State of Mind Sport
      • Maghull Health Park generator message
      • Aspen Wood: plastering, politicians and progress!
      • Vote for Zara Musker: Deaf Sports Personality of the Year
      • Whalley’s Christmas Carol Service: 21 December
      • Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin - January 2023
      • Welcome Jonathan Drew – Deputy Director of Security
      • Electrical outage at Whalley site
      • Interim Associate Director of Nursing and Patient Experience for the Secure Care Division
      • Good luck to Maghull Horticultural Department
      • Raising the flag for IWD in Whalley
      • Mossley Hill: Name those wards
      • International Women’s Day in Whalley
      • Student learning disability nurse of the year nomination
      • A royal thank you for Whalley
      • Secure Care Division begins support for HMP Altcourse
      • Aspen Wood artists meet our service users
      • Three Peaks challenge
      • Life Rooms Comes to Ashworth
      • Aspen Wood consultation process
      • Whalley retention - next steps
      • Quality Practice Alerts
      • Award success for Stafford House
      • Decorating for the Coronation
      • Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • Did you know about our Learning Disability Nurses?
      • Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin - 7 June
      • Whalley Carers look to the future
      • Aspen Wood – Highly Commended
      • Learning Disabilities Week celebrations
      • Whalley Rio Update
      • Byron Ward CAN!
      • Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • Well done Zara Musker – Deaf Sports Personality of the Year
      • Communication to all Whalley staff
      • Praise for the Life Rooms Ashworth from NHS England
      • Timetable changes for Whalley and Aspen Wood
      • Message from Steve Newton - Whalley
      • A warm welcome and a team delivering
      • Latest Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • Breaking News: National Service User Award Shortlisting for Whalley
      • We Want You – incentives for roles at Aspen Wood
      • Whalley Campus: Radar update
      • HOPE(s) two day training at Whalley
      • Radar drop in sessions for Secure Care division
      • Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • Congratulations to Greg Shelley on achieving his Masters!
      • Learning disabilities and autism bulletin
      • Celebrating Whalley
      • Whalley Team at National Service User Awards
      • Message from Julia Musker
      • Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • Yoga sessions for Rowan View patients
      • Our Shared College timetable
      • Mersey Care recognised for leading on restraint reduction
      • The latest Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • Eden Ward holds cancer awareness event for service users
      • Consultation update from Steve Newton – 26 October
      • Learning Disability Nurse Day
      • Ward Guardian roll out – Secure Care division
      • Congratulations to Dr Indu Surendran
      • Whalley Remembrance 2023
      • Secure care division staff inspire young people at Hugh Baird University Centre
      • Occupational Therapy week celebrations
      • Latest Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • Celebrating three years of Rowan View
      • Safety around Maghull Health Park
      • Latest Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • Whalley celebrates Christmas
      • The Life Rooms Ashworth celebrates the season
      • Latest Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin
      • Local MP visits Aspen Wood
      • Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin - 16 January
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