Publish date: 4 March 2026
Mersey Care and Elysium Healthcare (at Arbury Court) are celebrating International Women’s Day with a new forum starting on 11 March.
The forum has been shaped through engagement with women on every secure ward, supported by lived experience colleagues from the provider collaborative PROSPECT.
Female service users in secure services told the team that they want more opportunities to share their experiences and influence what good care looks like.
The forum will bring together two patient representatives from each women’s ward, including Eden, Hodder, Chesterton and Tennyson Wards in Mersey Care and from Arbury Court, Oakmere, Delamere and Daresbury.
The forum will meet monthly, initially online, to enable women across services to connect and be involved safely and consistently.
The first meeting will include a showcase of posters created by women on each secure ward, reflecting this year’s International Women’s Day theme: “Giving to Gain.”
This supports the NHS England mandate to improve women’s secure services and has been co-produced by PROSPECT and the Women’s Secure Pathway Transformation (WSPT) leads across both organisations.
Patient Experience and Co-Production Lead Kate Fletcher tells us she's excited to see how engaged the women have been preparing for the event. Colleagues across Secure Division, including Jen Williams, Grace Shallcross, Amy Cotterill and strategic lead Rebecca Mottershaw-King have supported service users to create eye catching posters to launch the new forum. We think you'll agree they are really making a statement!
You can read more about PROSPECT on our public webpages here.
