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  • Today (Friday) our Centre for Perfect Care clinical director Dr Jennifer Kilcoyne is speaking to the World Health Organisation. The WHO are keen to hear how Mersey Care is leading training on de-escalation of crisis situations in secure settings. Jennifer is speaking to international experts alongside Gavin Harding MBE from NHS England at their Quality Rights international webinar in a session which was opened by human rights experts from Switzerland.

  • The virtual event will provide opportunity to hear an overview of the past year at the CCG and to hear about the future of health and social care services in south Sefton.

  • The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has updated their Areas of Research Interest (ARIs). They focus on areas of strategic policy importance to DHSC.

  • Calling all staff who undertake operational (bronze) and tactical (silver) on call manager roles.

  • A decade after the publication of a landmark review of the health and social care clinical support workforce, a new study of this critical part of the NHS workforce by King’s College London has been launched.

  • Dying Matters is a significant event that encourages healthy conversations about death and dying. This year, it commences on 6 May 2024, and the theme is ‘The way we talk about Dying Matters’. It focuses on the language we use when discussing death, dying, and grief.

  • All Trust clinical staff, and those with social contact with patients, working in inpatient areas can now revert to twice weekly testing and all swab boxes.

  • The Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) welcomed the recent Department of Health and Social Care publication of guidance for frontline staff to support them in understanding how and when they should share information about patients where this may help prevent suicide and therefore save lives.

  • The UK Health Security Agency North West has identified a small number of confirmed measles cases in the Greater Manchester area.

  • Navneet Kapur, Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health at the University of Manchester and honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Mersey Care led this important research which looked at suicide risk in over 400 000 personnel who had left the UK Armed Forces over a 23 year period.

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