Trust news

Every year in October we celebrate Speak Up Month – a month to raise awareness of Freedom to Speak Up and make speaking up business as usual for everyone.

Mersey Care senior leaders showed their support for Count Me In at last week’s Annual General Meeting. Chief Executive Prof Joe Rafferty, CEO Designate Trish Bennett, Chair Rosie Cooper and others proudly displayed their support for the new scheme which will make it easier for more patients and service users to get involved in research activities.

On 26 September, the first Research and Innovation knowledge mobilisation session was held at V7 with a focus on mood disorder care innovations. The session sought to enhance knowledge exchange and understanding on the topic. There was discussion on the design and implementation of the new Mersey Care mood disorders clinical service which is due to launch in the coming months.

Our Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response and Infection Prevention and Control teams have developed a new Trust wide Outbreak Plan.

The Government recently announced a 5.5% consolidated pay increase for all staff on Agenda for Change. Our payroll services provider has now communicated the date of payment for the AFC 2024 pay award for Bank assignments and will be in tax week 28 - pay date 18 October 2024.