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.

 

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  • Community Care

    Knowsley Bladder and Bowel

    13 December 2024

    Knowsley Continence Service has changed its name to Bladder and Bowel and has migrated to EMIS, you are no longer able to complete an internal referral via RIO. Nursing Services within the same EMIS Org can complete an inbound referral. To refer a patient please complete the internal referral form and send to the new email address knowsleybladderandbowel@merseycare.nhs.uk

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    New click and collect service for equipment

    10 December 2024

    Our Liverpool Community Equipment Service has introduced a new click and collect service from their site at Mersey Reach in Bootle. When prescribers order in the normal way, they can now select ‘collect equipment from my local depot’ on the delivery page to enable click and collect, which includes same day collection. This new service will enable prescribers to issue equipment direct at patient appointments. For more information contact community.equipment@merseycare.nhs.uk

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  • Community Care

    SCHEDULED WORK NOTIFICATION - EMIS Web for Community

    10 December 2024

    Community EMIS Web will be upgraded with the latest Medical Knowledge Base (MKB) file, which includes updated background codes.

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  • Community Care

    0-19 Public Health Service

    9 December 2024

    We are pleased to share that in partnership with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Trust we have been awarded the contract for the Provision of a 0-19 Healthy Child Programme in Liverpool and the new contract will start on 1 April 2025.

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    Queen's Nursing title for Laura Jones

    5 December 2024

    On Friday, 29 November Laura received her Queens Nurse title, which was such a proud moment for her, as provides formal recognition of the commitment to high standards of patient care and continually improving practice.

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