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

Our stories

  • Category: Community Care

    Palliative care update

    16 January 2026

    Supporting palliative and end of life patients in the south and centre of the city.

  • Category: Trust news

    New Mental Health Training Offer for Parents and Carers

    16 January 2026

    The Charlie Waller trust is a mental health charity who provide training with a focus to equip parents, carers teachers and communities with the latest evidence based strategies. If you are a parent or carer for a child or young person with accessing mental health or wellbeing services and you would like to apply for this training or discuss the training please contact Harriet Clarke Harriet.Clarke@merseycare.nhs.uk

  • Category: Community Care

    Help Shape Perinatal Care Referrals

    13 January 2026

    We want to make the Specialist Perinatal Service referral process as smooth and effective as possible - and your professional feedback is key to making that happen.

  • Category: Community Care

    Change of operational hours for Specialist Palliative Care

    8 January 2026

    The Specialist Palliative Care service in Knowsley and St Helens, is extending their operational hours.

  • Category: Community Care

    Protection against Chickenpox

    6 January 2026

    Children are now offered protection against chickenpox, with the launch of the MMRV vaccine. For most children chickenpox can be mild, but for others it can be serious and lead to complications and hospitalisation. From 1 January 2026 children will be offered protection against chickenpox in the NHS routine childhood vaccine schedule from 12 months old.