Welcome to Community Services Division news

Here, you will find all of the latest news around the Community Services Division, submitted by you. 

If you have any news you would like to share, please email the communications team with your story and pictures if available: communications@merseycare.nhs.uk 
 

Our stories

  • Keeping children free from falls

    21 July 2025

    "A preventable accident ends up with a shattered family. And that’s just very tragic." Paediatric Neurologist (a doctor who specialises in child brain injury)

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  • Speech and Language Therapy Referrals

    18 July 2025

    Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust has a new referral form.

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  • School Readiness - Supporting children to thrive

    17 July 2025

    Helen Pruden Operational Manager, for our Sefton 0-5 CYP and Families Team, was recently interviewed for a podcast about school readiness

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  • NHSE visit to Autism Services

    26 June 2025

    Emily Jamieson, NHS England’s Senior Programme Lead Manager for Learning Disability and Autism visited the Trust on 18 June to hear about the work we are doing.

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  • Nursing Times – Psychotropic medication in inpatient mental health care for young people

    25 June 2025

    Well done to Carol-Anne Murphy, nurse consultant in our Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service who authored an article in the Nursing Times July publication. Carol-Anne talked about how nurses can help ensure that the medication prescribed is necessary and issues relating to consent to treatment. The Clinical Practice Review discusses issues relating to consent to treatment and medication

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