Shaping the future together
Engagement on the initial views regarding Low Secure Services for people with learning disabilities has now concluded.
Architect sketches : ©Gilling Dod Architects
Developing low secure services on the Maghull Health Park
Mersey Care is commissioned to deliver forensic support for complex cases where people present significant risk to themselves or the public. These are not services solely for people because they have a learning disability. As with our other forensic in-patient units and hospitals across our Secure Division, we support people who have come to us through the legal system. Our Maghull site would deliver the full care pathway through these levels of security. We would expect those in our care to move through secure servicesContinue reading
Architect sketches : ©Gilling Dod Architects
Developing low secure services on the Maghull Health Park
Mersey Care is commissioned to deliver forensic support for complex cases where people present significant risk to themselves or the public. These are not services solely for people because they have a learning disability. As with our other forensic in-patient units and hospitals across our Secure Division, we support people who have come to us through the legal system. Our Maghull site would deliver the full care pathway through these levels of security. We would expect those in our care to move through secure services and, with support, take their place in their own community.
Mersey Care has a long history of supporting people with learning disability in community and, as with these services, has specialised in forensic care for those requiring detention under the Mental Health Act. It is important to keep in mind these are not services for people who have a disability, but those who present with significant risks or offending behaviours and who require NHS care as part of treatment to address those behaviours.
We’re grateful to those who have engaged so far. Please take time to register your views on our secure provision here.
You can help us by taking part in a quick survey, tell us your stories and experiences, share ideas and take part in our discussion forum, take part in all or just those that suit you. Please take a moment to read the message from Mersey Care clinical lead for this project, Dr Frank McGuire before clicking on the buttons below to get started.
In 2017, NHS England undertook a national consultation on the closure of long stay accommodation for people with learning disability and autism in a secure setting. As a result of this, NHS England Commissioned Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust (Mersey Care) to improve the quality and quantity of low secure services for the benefit of people with a learning disability across the North West. This will be achieved by developing a modern therapeutic model of care provided at a single new hospital facility located at the Maghull site – now called Maghull Health Park.
High secure services are already provided from the site and from late 2020 medium secure services, including specialist learning disability provision, will also be provided on site. Additional services to improve gender balance of provision and separate services for Autism will be provided by Mersey Care and its partners in the North West Lead Provider Collaborative.
The development of a low secure hospital at the Maghull site has received outline planning permission, however Mersey Care remain committed to engaging with all stakeholders to ensure the low secure service model is fully understood and embedded within the local community.
Mersey Care Clinical Lead, Dr Frank McGuire, says:
'We don’t just want to sit the service within the borough of Sefton – we are committed to genuinely being a part of it and building on the traditions of longstanding services in the borough. We believe that as a trust we have a lot to offer but also a lot to gain from our relationship with the people of Sefton. It is our deeply held view that the wellbeing of communities is multi-faceted and must be supported through opportunity, hope and aspiration. Our desire is to be embedded in the local community, to be part of the Sefton and Maghull community where Maghull Health Park is seen as an asset because of the opportunities it brings.'
The low secure service is based on 3 principles:
- Recovery, integration and aspiration: The lives of people in secure care have often been troubled and certainly disrupted due to their illness. Clinical intervention must be delivered in a timely and proactive way to avoid unnecessarily extended stays in hospitals. Our clinicians work collaboratively with service users and their families to support their recovery, help them achieve their goals and ultimately build a life beyond care.
- Capacity and demand: Ensuring timely access to appropriate care in secure hospitals is a challenging task. Often beds are unavailable for people who are very ill, and they are placed in environments ill equipped to meet their needs. The configuration of services on Maghull Health Park will allow us to manage patient flow much more efficiently ensuring the beds, care and treatment is available when needed most.
- Risk reduction and public protection: Providing safe and effective intervention from admission to discharge has and always will be our out primary objective. Nothing is more important to us than the critical contribution to public protection our services make. We never lose sight of our most fundamental task, to reduce the risk our service users pose and facilitate their safe return to community.
This engagement process will support the final planning application, construction and service implementation phases of the project and ensure the Mersey Care and the commissioners listen to the voice of patients, carers, staff and the local community to ensure this service is seen as local asset for Maghull in particular and Sefton in general.
You can help us by taking part in a quick survey, tell us your stories and experiences, share ideas and take part in our discussion forum, take part in all or just those that suit you.
For details about this engagement in other languages, braille or easy read, please write to Mersey Care LSU, V7 Kings Business Park, L34 1PJ
Learn more about Mersey Care’s ambition for a new generation of hospitals and hear from clinicians and the Trust Chief Executive in this short film made on Maghull Health Park
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Cristina 28over 3 years agoAutism optimization suggestions
AUTISM SERVICES OPTIMIZATION Cristina-Steliana Mihailovici I am writing you this improvement proposals from the perspective of a parent of one autistic child, who was reading a lot of medical research and all kind of books dedicated to autism and who was following all steps of an autistic child till became an autistic teenager, trying all methods to improve his health, abilities and knowledge. 1. Improving communication between educational system and institutions and community organisations with GPS and Health Institutions and organisations who are having in their community autism cases. From this strong communication could result benefits for the autistic individuals, but also for the community. We cannot forget that people like Einstein, Mozart, Steve Jobs, Greta Thunberg, etc. they were autistic and because they had the support of their families and their communities, they could achieve their intellectual and individual performance and give back to the community and humanity the best gifts. Like parent, researcher and writer I had involved my autistic daughter in many intellectual activities in different domains with “normal” people, not only with SEN people or mental health people. I think this is the real challenge for us like proffesionals and like community. In school and academically seems that she is not performing like she is performing like an individual in family and community and she is not the only one in this situation. Like Lecturer, also, I was having cases of autistic students and I was almost the only lecturer who was understand their behaviour and know how to stimulate and support their intellectual and academic performance. Yes, exists course for teachers and lecturers who are teaching SEN children and students, but unfortunately I think that this course could be a lot improved and also the educational services in schools and universities for SEN children. Also, autistic children and students are SEN students and in many occasions, if not always, they are classified with learning disabilities. I am not agree with this, like parent, like lecturer and like member of the community. I consider that many of them they have a huge analytical capacity and technology or other skills, but we have the responsibility like professionals, families, community, to support and help them more, to give them more opportunities and to trust more their capabilities. I have a lot more to say, but I will stop here. I think that we must to continue a strong research on all what means autism and separable learning disabilities, because in too many times they are correlated together, specially from part of teachers who are not enough prepared, in my opinion and who are filling reports that they are doing everything, but the autistic individual cannot achieve some targets. In my opinion this is wrong and we are losing like a global community, in all World. 2. Improving communication and following the whole process with the Council and all services for autistic people and their families. Many times we are talking in this cases about mental health problems, too. Mental health problems for the autistic individuals, mental health problems for their families. Why? Because of lack of communication, lack of responsibility and lack of more awareness in the society about this individuals, about the support that they need and about the services that they need. Again, I have so many example that could be more explored and improved, and all only with a better communication between organisations, community and NHS. (Blue Badge could be one example in which NHS could help disabled,SEN and autistic individuals)
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MENTAL HEALTH OPTIMIZATION SERVICES / SYSTEM Cristina-Steliana Mihailovici I am writing this suggestions because I was a volunteer for mental health and loneliness services for four months, under Liverpool Good Neighbourhood and NHS Merseycare Trust. I was calling people and I was trying my best to support them when the pandemic was starting. Everyone was feeling anxious, everyone was feeling worried and I was trying my best like a good citizen of this wonderful town. I was completing reports after each call that I made and I was sending it to one email address. I was really disappointed. I was expecting more impact, more involvement, more dedication and yes, clear more communication. At the end of August I was receiving one email that we are stopping this services and that if we want to continue to write them back. I was really sad and disappointed. This communication and services could be a lot more improved. I was mentioning Kaizen method because we should follow the process on each of it steps, on each patient, from the principle till the end. Sending emails with forms and checklists weekly, for four months, without any feedback from the organisation, I think it was ineffective for me, like volunteer and for the patient, too. Communication should be a lot more improved in all processes and in all organisations that are dealing with people, more with NHS patients. This process could be optimized and I have many ideas ( in quality of a management expert, too). One of them is to get involved more institutions and more services from more domains. This could include for example art domain or IT domain, educational one and so on, but with a strong communication system in place between all institutions and people involved, and community. We are living unprecedented times, when COVID 19 was affecting everyone's life, from professionals till ordinary people, metal health patients, children, the whole community. Only together we can improve all this processes, our health or mental health, our systems, services, our community. Natural Environment, climate change and sustainability have a strong impact too on all this healing processes; also, education, technology and culture. These are only few of my ideas and suggestions, in quality of a volunteer, of a citizen involved in the community, as a management expert. Thank you.
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Help us name the new Low Secure Unit
You will be aware from this website and other ways Mersey Care is engaging with stakeholders that we are proposing to develop a new specialist learning disability hospital on its Maghull Health Park…and we’d like your help in order to shape the future together.
One important aspect of any new development is its name. A name not only identifies a building or local landmark, but also helps with first impressions and define wider perceptions about the new hospital and the area it occupies.
Which is why we’re asking local people, staff, service users and their families and other interested parties to join in with our quest for a suitable name?
We’d like to hear your suggestions for a suitable name for this state of the art low secure facility.
Suggestions should be within our naming rules (see below) and be compatible with our other neighbouring hospitals of Rowan View and Ashworth, which are named after local landscape features.
We’d like to hear your naming suggestions by a closing date of Friday 4 December. You can give us any number of ideas and the reasons for the names. Send them via this website feedback or email your suggestions direct to the competition organisers at:
To help you help you come up with a name here are some ‘Do’s and Don’ts’ for you to consider:
- Names that have a local, themed, horticultural, historical or cultural significance – remember we want it relevant to the local area!
- Try to keep the names short and simple
- They should respect the services offered and people using the building
- Names should be sympathetic to the other buildings on Maghull Health Park as well as other features, names, colour schemes and themes such as trees, parks and woodlands, etc.
- The names can not be after a person who is living or recently passed away
- They can not duplicate a similar facility such as local hospital, nor duplicate trademark names or other public buildings and addresses in the area
- Avoid acronyms – a full name is better than abbreviations.
You can also download our flyer for more information and to share with friends, residents and other colleagues to send to us at the address on the form. You can find our flyer in the document downloads section of this website, which you will find by scrolling down from this notice.
Lifecycle
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Engagement Exercise
Shaping the future together has finished this stageShaping the future together engagement
16 September to 30 November 2020
Contributions encouraged from the local community, stakeholders, patients, family/carers and people with an interest
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Full Business Case approval by MCFT board
Shaping the future together has finished this stageThe MCFT board will meet in November to consider the Full and final Business Case
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Final planning permission submission
Shaping the future together has finished this stageContributions to this consultation are closed for evaluation and review. The Project team will report back on key outcomes.
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Final report
Shaping the future together has finished this stageThe final outcomes of the consultation are documented here. This may include a summary of all contributions collected as well as recommendations for future action.
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Full Business Case Approved
Shaping the future together is currently at this stageJanuary 2021 the Mersey Care Foundation Trust’s board of directors approved the full business case.