Mental Health Care news

Mental Health Care Division Senior Leadership Team would like to add a special thank you to those already circulated from Mersey Care’s Board members, for the continued commitment and dedication our staff have shown to service users during these unprecedented times. We’re proud and humbled by the resilience that you’ve shown in very difficult times.

Katie has been at Mersey Care for 22 years, with a vast range of experience and roles specifically addictions and community mental health. Katie will be missed by all teams, peers and colleagues and we wish her well within her new role in the voluntary sector.

Our new 80 bed mental healthcare site in Mossley Hill is now just 200 days from completion, with its roof on and interior works progressing. To mark this, Trust leads went on site this week for a ‘topping out’ ceremony. Trish Bennett, our CEO designate, toured the works and said: “It’s looking fantastic, there’s really great progress being made.”

Following on from learning from incidents, there was an online session recently on management and support for patients presenting with psychosis. A task group has been set up to look at pathways, provision and processes which will result in multiple working groups looking at how we continue to do what’s working and improve what isn’t, to make things safer for our patients.

Agnes Chandia Baku, Chief Nursing Officer from Ministry of Health, Uganda, was welcomed to the Trust on 15 July by Jenny Hurst, Deputy Director of Nursing and Sandra O’Hear, Deputy Nurse Strategic Lead for Safeguarding. The visit was initiated by Justine Kigozi Nakimuli Odwongo, Freedom to Speak Up Guardian and Cultural Sensitivity Lead.