Community Services
Our staff deliver community health services to people in their own homes, in locations including health centres and clinics, NHS Walk-in Centres and an older adults intermediate care ward at Aintree University Hospital site.
We are the largest provider of 0 to 19 services across Liverpool and Sefton, working in partnership to improve the health and wellbeing of 160,000 local children and their families.
We also deliver specialist dental health care, therapies, medicines management and nutrition and dietetics service. Our teams work closely with GPs and other health and social care services to ensure patients are cared for with the best support, closer to their home.
Our community nurses enable people to be cared for in their own community and remain as independent as possible, rather than having to go to hospital. Many of these services are delivered out of hours, 24 hours, seven days a week.
Every year our staff deliver care to thousands of patients and at the same they will be talking to their families, carers and their communities. These hundreds of thousands of interactions mean that our staff are best placed to understand patients’ holistic health and social needs, including education, prevention and self care.
Services
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Changes to Lymphoedema Service for housebound patients
Following a recent review, the service will no see patients who are unable to attend clinic.
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Children and Young People's Intensive Support Team
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Community Care Division – Operational Structure Review
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Community Equipment and Disability Advisory Service (CEDAS)
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District Nursing
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Integrated Community Equipment Services (ICES)
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Knowsley UCR Transfer
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Learning and improvement updates
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Liverpool Health Visitors – Geographical Model
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Medical Devices Department
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Mental Health Services 18 to 25 Transformation
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New specialist eating disorder inpatient unit for young people opens
Sapphire Ward is based at Ancora House at the Countess of Chester Health Park provided by Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
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NEWS2 (National Early Warning Score RCP 2019)
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NHS Social Work Service
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Pressure Ulcers
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Psychological Professions Leadership Redesign: Community Division
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Single Point of Access Knowsley Consultation
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SIRS
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Talking Therapies
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Tissue Viability Service
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UTC and WIC Consultation Operational times
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Yellow Card (MHRA)
Our stories
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Category: Community Care
New Lower Leg Pathway Launch
15 July 2026
The Tissue Viability Service is introducing an updated Lower Leg Pathway.
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Category: Community Care
District Nursing service update
9 July 2026
Change to District Nursing service delivery across Croxteth, Norris Green and Aintree with effect from 1 August
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Category: Community Care
Community Equipment Programme Update
9 July 2026
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust has begun a programme of work to review its Community Equipment Services across Liverpool and Knowsley.
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Category: Community Care
NHS number now required to book blood tests
9 July 2026
Our Phlebotomy Service in Liverpool, Sefton and Knowsley is making a change to how patients book their blood tests online.
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Category: Community Care
New era for community care in West Lancashire
30 June 2026
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will take the lead in delivering community health services across West Lancashire from 1st July, working in partnership with Mersey Care.