Trust news

Talking Therapies services will be taking part in a pop-up event at Central Station, Liverpool on World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September) between 11am and 3pm.

Nav Kapur, Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health at the University of Manchester and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Mersey Care was the expert advisor for the new NICE self-harm guidelines.

Colleagues working within community based adult mental health services (including early intervention in psychosis and eating disorder services), dietetics, falls teams and relevant physiotherapy and occupational therapies are advised that the Goal Based Outcome Tool – Adult is now live in Rio. You can find this form in Outcome Measures/Screening Tools within the Outcome Measure folder accessed via the case record menu.

The NHS Pension Scheme is a significant part of your total reward package, providing a guaranteed income in retirement, along with other benefits. Isio (NHS pension specialist) is running online webinars to explain what you get as a member of the scheme

Staff from the Mersey Cares charity are visiting projects funded by the former Dragons Den Scheme to understand the impact. They recently visited Fern Ward at Leigh Moss Hospital, older people’s inpatient services where funding has allowed them to install dementia friendly door wraps on bedroom doors.