Continuously improving the services we provide
Take a look around and learn about the work we are doing to improve the services we provide, whilst addressing the mental health and wellbeing challenges of the future. If you find an article that you find particularly useful you can share it with your friends, family or colleagues by using our social media icons!
20 Jul 2022
The purpose of this document is to inform our participants about how their data is used in our study.
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20 May 2022
Mersey Care Research Team would like to share and invite you to view their department video to celebrate International Clinical Trials Day (ICTD) which is marked every year on 20nd May.
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23 Mar 2022
Share your knowledge, understanding and experiences and help us to continually grow and improve.
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10 Nov 2021
Move your team closer to achieving accreditation and improve your service, patient and staff experience. Learn more when you attend the Quality Improvement Bitesize Digital Training.
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21 Jul 2021
Following a highly successful first and second phase which saw over 112,000 participants, researchers from Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust are leading a collaboration group are launching the third phase of their global study into the psychological impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and changing restrictions.
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21 Jul 2021
The Council for Allied Health Professions Research (CAHPR) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) would like all AHPs working in the NHS to complete an important national survey, whether you are involved in research or not.
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12 Mar 2021
Joe Rafferty CBE has been appointed as an Honorary Professor by the University’s Institute of Population Health.
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16 Jul 2020
The aim of this survey is to better understand how the coronavirus and the impact the current lockdown is having on our day to day lifestyle. We hope to find out what is helpful for people during this time and also what may be causing some people to be affected more than others in terms of their wellbeing.
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20 Jan 2020
A perfect bite size introduction to Quality Improvement - open to all staff. Come and join us for a stimulating one day session to help open your mind on what QI is and how you can make it work for you and your team.
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11 Oct 2019
A perfect bite size introduction to Quality Improvement - open to all staff. Come and join us for a stimulating one day session to help open your mind on what QI is and how you can make it work for you and your team.
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12 Jul 2019
Wayne Ennis and Jeanette Murray, proudly display our Patient Safety Award for the No Force First / Reducing Restrictive Practice programme. Their input influence and support has been invaluable!
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03 Jul 2019
Congratulations to 'No Force First' ! winners of the 'Changing Culture' category at the Patient Safety Awards 2019.
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02 Jul 2019
We are investigating what helps and does not help people receive mental health assessments and access psychological therapies after they present to hospital with self-harm.
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28 Jun 2019
We want your help in creating our new Thank You cards. To enter you must be a service user or carer of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
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31 May 2019
Introduction to Quality Improvement Workshop takes place on: Friday 12 July 2019 Oakmere Conference Centre L4 6UG 9.30am - 4.30pm
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02 Nov 2018
No Force First and Reducing Restrictive Practice showcased at International Conference.
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12 Jun 2018
Last Thursday night in Manchester saw our No Force First team scoop their fourth national award in a year.
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17 May 2018
In summary, ward experiences were used to highlight the need to include nursing assistants in completing the DASA risk tool.
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12 Apr 2018
Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside share a case study of how they implemented a new patient safety framework in a mental health care setting with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
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05 Mar 2018
Great news: No Force First has been nominated in the 2018 HSJ Value Awards
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02 Mar 2018
The latest Suicide Prevention bulletin can now be viewed at http://www.evidenceinmind.co.uk/services/bulletins/
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02 Mar 2018
Exploring the cause and prevalence of memory problems in people with mental health, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.
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27 Feb 2018
How does the social and economic environment affect our mental health? If you are over 18 years and a UK citizen you could help us find out by participating in our study !
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27 Feb 2018
Umbero and Jon at Windsor House are incredibly committed to supporting people on their smoke free journey. They are seeing encouraging increases in NRT and E-CIG use!
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13 Feb 2018
Following recent success at the Nursing Times Awards, the No Force First team are delighted to see an overview of the process published in the current edition of the Nursing Times.
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24 Jan 2018
Jane Boland and Michael Crilly from our team at Mersey Care join Mental Health Marathon to talk about how tackling the stigma surrounding mental health can save lives.
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15 Dec 2017
When the NHS develops new approaches to healthcare discovering a flaw down the line can come at great cost. So why don’t we iron out the issues at the outset? And shouldn’t the people at the sharp end – staff and patients – tells us how it should be done?
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13 Dec 2017
Mersey Care are hosting a free half-day event to develop capacity and knowledge in clinical staff to support the delivery of clinical research trials.
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08 Dec 2017
The Care Quality Commission, as part of their on-going commitment to reducing restrictive practice, have included Mersey Care in their latest guidance as an example of a provider with a comprehensive and wide ranging plan to address this key issue.
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05 Dec 2017
We help the Health Foundation answer the question ‘How safe is our care?’ by discussing our DASA framework for measuring and monitoring instances of patient aggression, to improve patient and staff safety and bring about constructive change.
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06 Nov 2017
Our ‘No Force First’ initiative has won the coveted Nursing Times Awards for Improving Patient Safety.
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02 Nov 2017
In her new role, Jennifer is responsible with Perfect care colleagues for developing quality improvement solutions to support teams to develop and implement the organisational key priorities and to ensure we continue to be a leading organisation in the fields of: 1. Zero suicide 2. Reduced Restrictive Practice 3. Improved Physical Health 4. Just and Learning Culture.
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26 Oct 2017
The award for ‘No Force First’ at the Positive Practice in Mental Health Awards is continuing its tour of inpatient units around the trust in recognition of the fantastic work being undertaken to reduce the use of restrictive interventions.
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20 Oct 2017
Mersey Care have participated in a research report titled: 'National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness' which was the first of its kind - looking to find the common themes in the lives of young people (aged under 25 in England and Wales) who die by suicide.
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10 Oct 2017
Aintree Racecourse has hosted the full launch of our ‘Guide to Reducing Restrictive Practice’.
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06 Oct 2017
The Transition between Mental Health Settings Conference to be held on Monday 5th February 2018, will focus on the implementation of the NICE Quality Standard for Transition between inpatient mental health settings and community or care home settings.
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26 Sep 2017
Latest data collated through the Centre for Perfect Care has revealed that Mersey Care’s in-patient areas have seen an overall reduction of 37% in the use of physical intervention since April 2016, up to and including August 2017.
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31 Aug 2017
Our DASA (Dynamic appraisal of Situational Aggression) study team provide an update on how they are developing and testing their research within new settings. As well as publicising their findings to help improve and support other mental health/wellbeing services and teams.
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15 Aug 2017
Our Medical Education department are proud to be introducing a pilot programme today with our new trainees, which will see the launch of ‘ImproveWell’- a digital platform with a smartphone app.
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02 Aug 2017
The No Force First team are delighted that the process has been nominated again in the Nursing Times Awards in the category of 'Patient Safety Improvement'.
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25 Jul 2017
The No Force First team are delighted that the process has been nominated in the final three for a prestigious 2017 Positive Practice in Mental Health award in the Quality Improvement category.
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13 Jun 2017
Almost 100 staff, service users and carers attended a joint Trust and University of Liverpool Research Collaboration event at the Quaker Meeting House on 1 June. Delegates heard updates on some of the joint work which is supporting the trust priorities of No Force First, Zero Suicide and Physical Health along with a service user and carer lead piece of research looking at Perceptions and Understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder in Community Teams.
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13 Jun 2017
No Force First, our restrictive intervention reduction programme, is the subject of a symposium at the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services in Croatia week commencing 12 July.
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18 May 2017
Our latest data for No Force First has indicated fantastic progress from our clinical teams as we move towards a restraint free future.
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04 Apr 2017
We were delighted to hear how Mental Health services in Australia are keen to adopt our No Force First Initiative.
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29 Mar 2017
Members of the Care Quality Commission see first hand our No Force First initiative in action
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22 Mar 2017
The Centre for Perfect Care were delighted with the announcement this week that our restrictive intervention reduction programme, No Force First, has been nominated in the ‘Mental Health’ category at the 2017 Patient Safety Awards.
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21 Mar 2017
The progress being made towards one of our Perfect Care priorities continues week commencing 20th March as the comprehensive ‘Guide to reduce restrictive practices in mental health services’ arrive on our inpatient units.
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15 Feb 2017
Through a partnership between Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and Liverpool John Moores University an exciting research study is about to commence to test a piece of digital technology which has the potential to support independent living for a variety of people.
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