Publish date: 26 May 2023
We have taken some bold and ambitious steps in our strategic plan for improving patient outcomes through research and innovation. Our vision has been recognised. I’m incredibly proud to share with you the news that Mersey Care and University of Liverpool have been awarded £10.5 million Government funding from the Office for Life Sciences and the National Institute for Health and Care Research to create the Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC).
Mersey Care’s academic partnership with the University of Liverpool is in response to the 2021 announcement by the Prime Minister to fund four ‘Healthcare Missions’ dedicated to improving treatment in cancer, obesity, mental health, and addictions.
M-RIC’s creation builds on our strategic research priorities and the need to understand and address historic mental health inequalities. It will focus on under researched areas such as early intervention in psychosis, depression, and children and young people’s mental health, and underpins Liverpool City Region’s commitment to patients and service users, providing easy access to clinical trials and increasing their involvement in better care, closer to home. It will advance understanding of how mental, physical, and social conditions are interlinked, and trial new interventions co designed with patients, service users, and industry partners.
Following the Mental Health Mission national announcement today, our joint press release with the University of Liverpool is available on our website. If you would like to find out more about how you can get involved, please email MRIC
Further details on the centre’s activity will follow as the centre becomes established, so please keep an eye out.
For now, I wanted to share the great news with you, and thank all the staff involved in realising this amazing achievement.
