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

  • Life Rooms Comes to Ashworth

    15 May 2023

    Trust Chair, Rosie Cooper, visited the new Life Rooms in Ashworth this week. Rosie joined Trish Bennet, Elaine Darbyshire and secure leads to see the new facility.

  • Mossley Hill: Name those wards

    21 April 2023

    We have created a poll to look for name suggestions for the wards and café at the new build at Mossley Hill – ideally with a local or regional connection.

  • Aspen Wood artists meet our service users

    31 March 2023

    After being selected in interviews with Whalley service users, the two artists have been on Maplewood to explore ideas for the big artwork planned for the new LSU.

  • Secure Care Division begins support for HMP Altcourse

    27 March 2023

    From 1 April our Secure Care Division will be providing integrated mental healthcare in the category B men’s prison in Fazakerley, for an initial period of six years.

  • A royal thank you for Whalley

    23 March 2023

    One of our service users on Maplewood ward received a letter from the King last month after sending him a letter to tell him how sorry they were to hear about the late Queen.