Trust news

Council elections will take place in Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens and Halton on Thursday, 7 May, and NHS England has shared the latest pre-election guidance. Here you will find more detail, and some key considerations. Our external communications activities necessary for operational delivery purposes will continue as usual. It’s important during this period that the NHS must act and be seen to act with political impartiality and our resources should not be used for party political purposes.

The Trust will be rolling out Allocate SafeCare across our inpatient units to support care delivery, with a launch event held on 3 February at the early adopter site of Clock View hospital.

Due to bank holidays throughout the year and occasions where Bank and Monthly payroll periods overlap, the payroll deadline for Bank shifts has been amended to ensure a smooth payroll process.

We are currently experiencing ongoing technical issues affecting some colleagues’ ability to complete the Counter Fraud eLearning module on the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system.

A paper by Katie Fox, Rebecca Griffiths Harte, Allison Pilling and Rebecca Hunter from our Maternal Mental Health Service (MMHS) shows our trauma focused MMHS group significantly reduces psychological distress and birth related PTSD symptoms. The evaluation was published in the Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology on 26 February 2026.