Mental Health Care news

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are doing a joint piece of work to embed the use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Adult Community Mental Health services as part of the Community Mental Health Transformation programme.

A huge well done to Sofina Hussain, clinical specialist physiotherapist in mental health care division. Sofina has been in her role for five years and been in practice for more than 20 years

In any given year Mersey Care takes up to 800 medical students on placement. Medical student undergraduate training normally lasts five years before students leave medical school and enter a two year programme working as a foundation doctor. After foundation, the specialty training to become a consultant psychiatrist will take a minimum of six years!!

Last week, the St Helens Recovery Team Gardening Group went on a day trip the Southport Flower Show.

Our own new 80 bed mental healthcare service on the site of the old Mossley Hill hospital is coming on brilliantly as these images show.