Trust news

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.

The following policies have been updated.

There was a healthy attendance at this week’s AGM held at Aintree Racecourse, where those who attended were given reports about Mersey Care’s performance in the last year and the Trust priorities in the near future. They also had a chance to look around the marketplace beforehand, where services had stalls explaining what they do and providing further information.