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Perfect Care
Antony Gormley, Another Place
A trust providing services in the North West is set to become the largest in England.
It’s an exciting time to be part of Mersey Care. Mental and physical health and wellbeing is our core business. We serve more than 11 million people, offering specialist inpatient and community services that support mental health, learning disabilities, addictions, brain injuries and physical health in the community, and we are one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
Since summer 2016 we have successfully become a Foundation Trust. We acquired specialist learning disability services provider Calderstones Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust in 2016 and more recently became a provider of local community physical health services in Liverpool and Sefton, mental health services in HMP Liverpool and personality disorder at HMP Garth. In 2018 the CQC rated us as ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for well led. We have also won, amongst many others, the National Patient Safety Awards prize for Changing Culture.
We are committed to providing perfect care. As part of this we support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside patients, service users and carers to design and develop future services together.
We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so. We call this continuous improvement in quality and cost, ‘striving for perfect care’. Our aim is to play a full part in the health and social care economies we serve, by promoting and driving greater integration between mental and physical health and social care.
