Welcome to Secure and Specialist Learning Disability (SSpLD) division news

Here you will find all of the latest news around the SSpLD division, submitted by you. 

If you have any news you would like to share, please email the communications team with your story and pictures if available: communications@merseycare.nhs.uk 
 

Our stories

  • HOPE(s) Model highly commended at HSJ Awards

    19 September 2024

    The HOPE(S) Model was highly commended by the HSJ judges in the category of LD Initiative of the Year.”

  • ‘Welcoming and kind’ – carers’ verdict on their visit to Ashworth

    13 September 2024

    High Secure carers were in the Ashworth Life Rooms last weekend. The facility came into Ashworth a year ago and has now worked with the vast majority of patients, including staging live shows, concerts and sessions with musicians from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

  • Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin

    11 September 2024

    This month's bulletin is available here

  • Support for colleagues

    20 August 2024

    Following the recent incident in Southport and the subsequent aftermath across the country, we recognise that colleagues at Rowan View are likely to be continually affected, either directly or indirectly, by what’s occurred.

  • Hodder Ward Happiness

    15 August 2024

    Some great news from the female ward at Aspen Wood, our new low secure site in Maghull. Ward manager Phil Searle wants to thank all his team, but is this week highlighting the new nurses, graduating from Edge Hill University. Well done to Nicole, Laura, Stephanie, Jack, Catherine, Tabot, Dorothy, Rebecca, Lorraine, Danielle and Valetina.