Welcome to Trust wide news 

Here, you will find all of the latest news around the Trust which applies to all staff. 

If you have any news you would like to share, please email the communications team with your story and pictures if available: communications@merseycare.nhs.uk

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  • Category: Community Care

    Supporting children's development for World Book Day

    6 March 2025

    The 0-5 teams already work with Book Start to distribute books to families, at key stages in a child's development. We are today launching a story telling pilot study funded through the Child Health Equity Collaborative and Dolly Parten’s Imagination library. Children on the pilot will receive a book a month for the next three years and parents/carers will be supported to understand how important books and storytelling are for their infant; how even starting to read to your baby in utero can support their brain development.

  • Category: Community Care

    Saying goodbye to the last resident at Leonard Cheshire Home

    25 February 2025

    The resident was well known to our Garston nurses who have looked after him for seven years, they visited him three times a day, seven days a week. They saw him on his last day to say goodbye and take him gifts bought by the team.

  • Category: Community Care

    Huyton Hey Road temporary car park closure

    6 February 2025

    Knowsley MBC will be undertaking carriageway repairs on Huyton Hey Road, from Friday, 14 February at 8pm to Monday, 24 February at 5pm. Please note the car park will be closed for the duration.

  • Category: Community Care

    Congratulations on celebrating 42 years of nursing in the NHS Elaine McCormick!

    4 February 2025

    Elaine started her career on 7 February 1983 as an auxillary nurse on a care of the elderly ward at the Royal. She spent the first 22 years of her career working in secondary care, before making the move into community services, and as she says "the rest is history".

  • Category: Community Care

    New short term loan option launched for equipment

    3 February 2025

    Our Liverpool Community Equipment Service has launched a new feature which is now available on TCES, allowing prescribers to select a short term loan. This option should be selected for those patients with short term equipment needs and could include post-surgery aids such as walking frames, perching tools and raised toilet seats.