Welcome to Trust wide news 

Here, you will find all of the latest news around the Trust which applies to all staff. 

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

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    World Pharmacy Technician Day

    20 October 2025

    This week is World Pharmacy Technician Day!

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    Update on Suicide Safety Assessment Training

    20 October 2025

    In April 2025, NHS England published new guidelines titled "Staying safe from suicide." These guidelines introduce a significant shift in how the needs of service users and patients are assessed. The main change is moving away from traditional risk assessments (which rate risk as high, medium, or low) to a focus on safety assessments conversations to understand what makes them unsafe and what we can do to improve their safety.

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    On Board with our 2025 flu vaccination programme

    20 October 2025

    Board members were keen to take advantage of our free vaccination offer last week, rolling up their sleeves and getting the flu jab.

  • International Infection Prevention and Control Week

    20 October 2025

    International Infection Prevention and Control Week starts on the 19 October and is dedicated to raising awareness about the critical importance of infection prevention.

  • Learning from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) reporting

    20 October 2025

    The Radar incident and risk management system takes our patient safety incident information and reports this to the central NHS intelligence system called LFPSE directly from the reporting forms staff complete. From 3 November 2025, there will be changes to this system as version 6 goes live, via Radar.