Trust news

Cherylnn Harper, Community Mental Health Nurse joins September's Fighting Dementia podcast.

We ask colleagues to support the children's flu campaign by reminding families during consultations to complete their child’s flu consent form promptly, even if they choose not to have their child vaccinated.

Staff are reminded not to copy and paste entire email trails and documents into progress notes or clinical entries in the electronic patient records (EPR). If an email or other document is pertinent to the patient’s record, it must be saved and uploaded as a document into the EPR and then a reference made in the clinical entry.

We have now standardised the opening hours for all eight of our urgent treatment and walk-in centres, including Halewood and Huyton. From 22 September, all same day urgent care services will be open from 8am to 8pm, 365 days a year, to help avoid any confusion amongst residents. For further information, visit our website.

On World Suicide Prevention Day this week, the Zero Suicide Alliance launched an essential new training resource tailored for healthcare workers which is available for our Mersey Care staff to access now. The free online Healthcare Staff and Suicide Awareness Training has been funded by Mersey Cares with support from NHS Charities Together. It is designed to help people recognise suicide risk within the healthcare workforce and feel confident to offer support. It takes just 30 minutes to complete.