Welcome to Mental Health Care Division

Please see below Accountability List for Mental Health Care Division Teams:

The Directory of Services provides easy access to information about many services within and external to the Division that you may find useful. Click on the link to go to SharePoint.

If you see any errors or missing information within the directory, please email Directoryadminteam@merseycare.nhs.uk

Mersey Care successfully transitioned which means that all statutory Mental Health Act forms (for services using Rio only) should be completed using Thalamos. It’s the Trust’s expectation that you use this new process, so all admission, community treatment order, hospital, treatment and discharge forms should now be completed on Thalamos. Local authorities (approved mental health professionals) have gone live with Thalamos so will send forms to Mersey Care electronically. Find out more here.

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Mental Health Care Division organogram

We've extended our new physical health model of care, initially introduced to two of our mental health wards via a pilot approach, to three further wards to support the Trust's aim for whole person care.

The model was trialled initially on two of our mental health wards (Fern and Irwell) at Leigh Moss Hospital and Clock View Hospital. Following initial analysis, the pilot's now been extended to three more wards (Dunes, Albert and Morris) at Hartley Hospital, Broadoak Unit and Clock View Hospital. 

The three wards were identified due to being those with increased transfers to local acute trusts over the previous six months. Dunes ward was key to inclusion within the pilot as it had the highest number of transfers to the acute trust, with a high degree of complexity of individuals with mental health problems and comorbidities.

The pilot is taking place across the north Mersey part of our region due to operability of our single point of contact (SPC) service where all referrals are sent and decisions made as to the most appropriate place to treat the patient and our urgent care response (UCR) service who will treat many of the patients referred (UCR is for nursing only). The model will ensure equal access to the most effective and safest care and treatment to our inpatients.

Once the model has been fully tested and evaluated, we aim to roll it out to all inpatient wards across the Trust via a phased implementation, ahead of winter, to ensure we get the right care, to the right person, at the right time.

Our community physical health services, specifically urgent care, will provide these services and will significantly improve the physical health of our service users whilst in hospital.

More information about the new model of care and the pilot can be found by contacting:

• Pat McGuinness, Associate Director of Integration, Transformation and Partnerships on Pat.mcguinness@merseycare.nhs.uk or
• Lisa Gould, Clinical Services Manager for Physical Health on Lisa.gould@merseycare.nhs.uk 

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