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      • Goodbye to Jon
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      • Consultation period closes today - Friday 12 August 2022
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      • Joanne Scoltock retired on 18 September after 36 years in nursing
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      • Congratulations to Bernie Rochford MBE
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      • Lorna Green is retiring!
      • Elaine Wilkinson retires
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      • Chris Peake is retiring!
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      • Lynn King is retiring!
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      • ​​​​​​​Joan Carvell is retiring!
      • Occupational Health Physiotherapy - service delivery update
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      • Empactis: Action required for staff
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      • Farewell to Berenice Gibson
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      • Happy 80th birthday to Beryl Moyers
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      • Not another staff survey…
      • Newsletter update over Christmas and New Year 2023
      • ESR unavailable
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      • Make it Mersey Cares in 2024!
      • Pauline Copland has retired!
      • Help us to support looked after children with our Give a Gift to a Child in Care Appeal
      • Infection Prevention and Control Contract Award
      • Hollins Park House lift - UPDATE!
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      • Sad news – Ellis Di Caprio
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      • A fond farewell and thank you to our Liverpool Place Medicines Management Team
      • Relationships at Work Policy
      • National recognition for inspiring cyber security professional
      • Fond farewell to the Cheshire and Merseyside Resilience Hub
      • Occupational Health (OPAS-G2)
      • Community Nursing Simulation Collaboration showcase
      • Coaching celebration event
      • The Life Rooms 8th birthday
      • 8th PROMs Research Conference (20 June 2024)
      • Communications roadshow
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      • Potential delays in Southport due to road closures
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      • HSJ Patient Safety Awards
      • Count Me In roll out begins at the Annual General Meeting
      • Finance Department retain level 3 accreditation
      • Estates and Facilities - Team of the Year Award at IHEEM Healthcare and Estates Awards
      • IM mark World Mental Health Day with Tea and Talk
      • Best use of digital recognition for The Life Rooms
      • A huge well done Okey!
      • Sad news - Julie Andrews
      • Occupational Health re-location update
      • Recruitment re-brand: we need your views!
      • Procurement Act 2023
      • Our wellbeing advent calendar has a new look and feel this year!
      • Mersey Care chaplain Imam Fahmid Syed delivers a short message for New Year 2025
      • YourInsights - Our People dashboard now available
      • News on the go
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      • Exciting opportunity to attend the mental health technology event
      • Flexible working pilot (TWSS and IM colleagues)
      • ASPIRE – new leadership development programme
      • SCHEDULED WORK NOTIFICATION - EMIS Mobile and EMIS-X Mobile
      • FOI Team of the Year 2025
      • Northern Health Science Alliance Top 400 women
      • Facilities management achieves high PLACE scores
      • EPMA and PSC go-live
      • Feel Better Spring 2025 programme
      • Health and Safety monthly hints and tips - February
      • Amendments to Bank payroll and reduced opening hours this Easter
      • Building the Foundations of Experience: Patient Experience Week 28 April to 2 May
      • Loop training sessions!
      • Two fine fellows
      • Change to information needed for taxi bookings
      • Liverpool Clinical Laboratories Industrial Action
      • Fraud Information Alert
      • Financial controls update: new spending approval limits
      • Race Equality Hub Leadership Empowerment
      • Centre for Perfect Care offers Quality Improvement Bitesize Training and Coaching
      • Combat Isolation Wellbeing drop-in
      • Live in Knowsley? Have your say
      • Weekly update - Step into Summer
      • Multi Ethnic Colleagues’ Staff Network meeting
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      • Records Awareness Training date in June
      • Unauthorised access to personal information
      • Carers Week 2025
      • Step into Summer Challenge - Week Four Winners!
      • Step into Summer Challenge - the final week
      • Step into Summer Challenge - Week Four Winners!
      • Charity Zip Line Fundraiser
      • LGBTQ+ Pride events this Saturday
      • Social isolation and loneliness training
      • Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history month
      • Step into Summer Staff challenge winner!
      • Tee off for Charity
      • Liverpool Interdisciplinary Neuroscience centre launch
      • New prescription tracking system rollout
      • Changes to the Rio System
      • Navigating your research using heathcare databases
      • Accessing NEWS2 Part B
      • Healthwatch Liverpool
      • Delay in Immunology results TTG and DNAS
      • New Perinatal Mental Health Birth Trauma course
      • NEW: IM Online Learning
      • NHS 10 Year Plan
      • Products deslisted from NHS Supply Chain
      • Total Rewards Statements are being updated
      • Security and site lockdown process reminder
      • Health and Safety – Climate control guidance
      • Important update for radar users
      • NHS Big Tea celebrations continue!
      • Staff carers network launch
      • Mandatory Recruitment Training
      • Notice of network downtime V7 Building
      • Money raised for Mersey Cares at NHS Big Tea
      • Thank you, Emma!
      • Success for Business Administration Training and Working Interview Recruitment Programme
      • Food and essential items support
      • Five days to complete this quarter's People Pulse survey
      • AHP e-job planning update
      • Culture of Care: success!
      • Two days left to have your say: complete now before the survey closes!
      • Congratulations to our National Cyber Awards finalists!
      • Occupational Health and Wellbeing referrals
      • Records awareness training
      • Want to know how Mersey Cares can support your service?
      • Staff carers network dates for 2025
      • Want to support our services? Join this season’s Fundraising Challenges!
      • Beware of Pretexting scams
      • World Pharmacist Day - Think Health, Think Pharmacist
      • Support for carers
      • Update to EMIS Web Smartcard Login – 22 September
      • Occupational Health Awareness Week
      • Introducing your new IM Digital Portal
      • Dyslexia Awareness Week – Staff Drop-In Sessions
      • Yom Kippur 2025
      • Black History Month 2025 - Mersey Care's Multi-Ethnic Colleague Network
      • Cyber Security Awareness Month - Keep I.T. Confidential
      • AccessAble Project – Surveyor Site Visits October 2025
      • Deaf Awareness Training
      • Staff Carers Network - Wednesday, 22 October 2025
      • NHS Health at Work Network Recognition Award
      • Reminder: the right pay, in a timely way
      • Epilepsy awareness and rescue medication training
      • Medicine Safety Week 2025
      • Laugh for Life Comedy Showcase
      • Celebrating our Occupational Therapists!
      • International Fraud Awareness Week
      • Food allergen eLearning training
      • Mersey Cares Secret Santa Appeal 2025
      • Self Care Week (17 to 23 November): Simple Steps to Support Your Wellbeing
      • World AMR Awareness Week 2025
      • Tis the season to be safe
      • National Cyber Director visits award winning Cyber and IT Security Team
      • Pioneering Inclusion in Finance and Procurement
      • Service Evaluation
      • Spotlight on Inclusion: Carer Cultural Awareness Training, Places Still Available!
      • Halton CYPMHS are running the Santa Dash for Mersey Cares!
      • Christmas Socks Day 2025: Put Your Best Foot Forward for Mersey Care!
      • Change in leadership for NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB
      • Our Organisational Effectiveness team leads the way
      • Festive payroll update
      • Christmas decoration fire safety advice
      • Essential resurfacing works at Willow House
      • Please update your contact details
      • Join our next Mersey Care Charity Network Meeting – Thursday, 4 December at 1pm
      • International Day of Persons with Disabilities - 3 December 2025
      • Staff wellbeing Advent Calendar
      • Wellbeing Advent calendar - Day 1
      • Wellbeing Advent calendar - Day 2
      • Wellbeing Advent calendar - Day 3
      • Wellbeing Advent calendar - Day 4
      • Multi-Ethnic Colleagues’ Network Annual General Meeting
      • Cheshire and Merseyside Wound Care Formulary: Lunch and Learn Sessions
      • Portable heater guidance: from the Health and Safety Team
      • Spotlight on Success: Fourth Annual Psychology Conference Brings Innovation and Inspiration
      • Agenda for Change mileage reimbursement rates
      • Wellbeing Advent calendar - day 8!
      • Wellbeing Advent calendar - Day 9
      • Wellbeing Advent calendar - Day 11
      • Pharmacy Christmas opening hours
      • Carers Christmas celebration event
      • Hollins Park festive carers café
      • Exciting career move for Krystina Stanway
      • Paula Wynne celebrates 30 years service
      • Christmas message from the Chaplaincy Service
      • Join the New Year’s Revolution
      • New Year Chaplain's Message
      • Riverside District Nurses' Christmas Day deliveries
      • Thank you for an incredible year from Mersey Cares
      • Calling all apprentices – share your story!
      • Agenda for Change mileage reimbursement rates notice
      • Supporting people with sickle cell disease this winter
      • Multi Ethnic Colleagues’ Career Progression Pathway launch
      • Spaces reserved on The Life Rooms courses for your service users
      • V7 Door Access Migration
      • Amendment to Bank payroll cut off
      • People Pulse is open
      • People Pulse - five days to go!
      • Improving neonatal services in the North West
      • World Wetland Day
      • Mental Health Act (MHA) 2025: key actions for sections that come into force on 18 December 2025
      • Things you should know about legionella
      • Important – Update your Staff Details
      • Hill Dickinson mock inquest series
      • NHS agrees next steps for women’s hospital services in Liverpool
      • On World Cancer Day 4 February
      • Ramadan 2026
      • Next week is National Apprenticeship Week: join our free webinars
      • NHS launches campaign to raise awareness of sexual assault referral centres (SARCs)
      • Sad loss of a colleague
      • Shape the Future with Data and AI Skills
      • Microhive: Share the love and help Mersey Cares support staff wellbeing. You could even win a spa experience at Titanic Hotel Liverpool!
      • Mersey Cares launches Easter Egg Appeal to support children in care
      • HFMA Bitesize Foundation Courses
      • New Job Description Person Specification Template – Launching 1 April 2026
      • Recovery one stitch at a time
      • Skydive for Mersey Cares this Mental Health Awareness Week
      • Ongoing Issues with the completion of Counter Fraud eLearning accessible via ESR
      • Important updates from our Estates Planning Team
      • Mersey Tunnel 10k 2026 - sign up today for an unforgettable challenge through one of Merseyside’s most iconic landmarks!
      • Help shape the LGBTQ+ Staff Network, fit for the future
      • Celebrating neurodiversity: support, learning and ways to get involved
      • How was your last PACE appraisal?
      • Women's Staff Network: International Women’s Day
      • A Tale of two runners: Why we’re running the Liverpool Half for Mersey Cares
      • Team of the Month November 2025: Health Visitors Team 9 North Liverpool
      • V7 Reception Door (updated)
      • Community Health Services Contract for West Lancashire
      • New job description and person specification template from 1 April 2026
      • Charity Impact: Supporting end of life care and bereavement for patients and their families
      • Get your team together and take on a challenge for Mersey Cares!
      • Hospital Pharmacy Day
      • Celebrating Social Work Week 2026
      • Supporting staff wellbeing: extra mindful origami sessions added in April for Stress Awareness Month!
      • Temporary staffing: revised bank payroll deadlines and Easter Bank Holiday office hours
      • Important RightFax Update
      • Working in partnership for our population
      • Step into Summer: Join the Trust wide team step challenge!
      • Congratulations to Katie and Robert for completing the Liverpool Half!
      • RAF Cadets meet with Children in Care team in Liverpool to deliver Easter treats
      • Important RightFax Update
      • Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training Competency
      • Supporting our partners
      • World Immunisation Week: what’s on and how to get involved
      • Microsoft 365 Training and Support
      • Staff step challenge in May – Have you registered your team?
      • PACE365 Appraisals 2026 – Launching 1 May
      • Leadership and management apprenticeships withdrawn 1 September
      • World Hand Hygiene Day - 5 May
      • Secondment opportunity: Senior Clinical Nurse, Urgent Treatment Centres and Walk-in Centres
      • Final call for skydivers during Mental Health Awareness Week
      • Action for referring managers to the Occupational Health and Wellbeing Service:
      • Helen is Highly Commended!
      • World Hand Hygiene Day
      • Tough Mudder or Giant Inflatable Challenge, anyone? Mersey Cares adds new exciting events for team fundraising!
      • Celebrating 25 Years of Mersey Care: £25,000, 25 free challenges and one big impact!
      • Creative Connections project gets underway at Thorn Road Clinic
      • New resources to support good wellbeing cultures
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      • Highlighting the Senses for Autism Month
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      • Monthly Tier 4 Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services drop ins
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      • Learning Disability Week 15 to 21 June 2026
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      • Community Equipment Programme Update
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