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      • Happy retirement Louise Johnston!
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      • Southport and Formby EMIS migration
      • Carmel Blake 40 years continuous NHS service
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      • 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
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      • Falls Week 19 September
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      • Parents Survey: Talking about Mental Health
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      • Sad news - Jill Pendleton
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      • Change of contact number – The Bridges Learning Centre
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      • Change of contact number - Warrington Learning Disability Team
      • Temporary closure of Nutrgrove Villa Community Dental Clinic
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      • Fax referrals no longer available for Treatment Rooms
      • Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services Up to 25 years
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      • 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
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      • Sad news – Paula O’Hara
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      • Maternal Mental health service celebrate one year!
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      • Walk In Centres information campaign to help patients
      • Lymphoedema Awareness Week - 6 to 10 March
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      • 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
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      • Jo Nash takes to the airwaves
      • Val Newey has retired!
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      • 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
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      • 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
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      • Garden Makeover at Specialist Dementia Unit
      • Mental health text support for people living in Liverpool and Sefton
      • Farewell to Paul Hardiman
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      • 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
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      • 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
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      • 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
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      • 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
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      • To our newest colleagues, welcome to Mersey Care!
      • IT user information from Informatics Merseyside
      • Staff communications channels from 1 June
      • Covid-19 procedures and workplace guidance after 1 June
      • Informatics update for former North West Boroughs staff
      • Finding your way around YourSpace
      • A message from the Organisational Effectiveness and Learning Team
      • Voicemail issues
      • Live Q&A for former NWBH staff
      • IMPORTANT: Opting out of the NHS Pension Scheme – new information
      • Recording of latest Q&A
      • Daily COVID sit-rep submissions for former North West Boroughs staff
      • IMPORTANT: Opting out of the NHS Pension Scheme – new information
      • Microsoft Teams issues
      • Live Q&A for former NWBH staff - Wednesday, 2 September
      • Learning Disability Awareness Week
      • Transfer of nhs.net accounts to Mersey Care server
      • Mental health text support for people living in Mid Mersey
      • Mid Mersey division policies and procedures guidance
      • Recording your lateral flow results
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      • Changes to breakaway training for inpatient staff
      • Your Recognition is now open to former North West Boroughs staff
      • Mid Mersey safety planning refresher
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        • Recording of training
      • PDR season is here!
      • Helping you settle in at Mersey Care briefings
      • IMPORTANT: Changes to COVID-19 procedures for Mid Mersey division staff
      • Rio process for patients moving between Wigan and Mid Mersey inpatient wards
      • Autism training for Mid Mersey mental health practitioners
      • Where to get your news and updates going forward
      • Recording of latest Q&A
      • St Helens and Knowsley Specialist Palliative Care Team – reduced capacity
      • Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death in Physical Health study
      • PDR season is well underway
      • Alan Rooney retires
      • Mortality Reviews for Mid-Mersey deaths
      • Changes to Rio courses
      • New contact number for Knowsley Children’s Services
      • Future of executive live Q&As
      • Halton and Warrington - changes to pathology and radiology test request process
      • New dates: Autism and Mental Health Training
      • COVID-19 booster in Cheshire and Merseyside
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      • New training added to e-learning
      • Contact Cares telephone lines are now working
      • 329 Rapid Tranquilisation E-Learning module
      • Friends and Family Test materials
      • Launch of eRisk training for Mid Mersey Division – 6 December
      • Overtime available for Health visitors and Nursery Nurses in Knowsley
      • Auden Anglers Association - Fishing club
      • Service change - Warrington Recovery Team
      • Breakaway Training
      • Car parking permits for staff based at Halton Hospital
      • Festive message from Senior Leadership Team
      • Research & Audit Forum on 11 January 2022 - Cancelled
      • Clinical Skills.net accounts
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      • CAMHS Focus Groups
      • Goodbye and thank you to our Knowsley 0-25 services
      • Look Say Sing Play (LSSP)
      • Transfer of 0-25 Knowsley services
      • Best wishes to Angela Ryan
      • Integrated Community Equipment Service – Knowsley
      • Planned network downtime
      • Mental Capacity advice and support for Mid Mersey Division
      • Happy retirement to Julie Clarke
      • Sad news - Michelle Barkley
      • Information regarding the purchase of additional annual leave
      • Brilliant BABS
      • Clear desk policy at Hollins Park House
      • Mid Mersey catering update
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      • Farewell message from Helen Sowden
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      • Happy retirement to Cheryl Ogier
      • Hollins Park Hospital - Is your car aerial missing?
      • Healthy Knowsley and The Life Rooms
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      • New expenses system for former North West Boroughs
      • Falls and Fracture Prevention in Knowsley
      • Best wishes to Sylvia McKenzie
      • Anti social behaviour in Knowsley
      • Changes to Rio safeguarding forms
      • Knowsley PPE: Hub Operational Hours
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      • When school's out in Sefton it's time to turn to text
      • Selenity updates
      • Liverpool City Region Borough of Culture evaluation
      • Midnight Walk
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