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Improved access to reproductive healthcare for Liverpool women

25 Sept 2024

Thousands of women in Liverpool can now access more women’s health services in the community and closer to home.

Liverpool launches £900k Community Champions Public Health programme

19 Sept 2024

Liverpool City Council is proud to announce the funding of ten community organisations over the next three years as part of its new Community Champions programme.

Best for Baby Too film premiere

17 Sept 2024

A moving film which captured maternity experiences of six women in the asylum system received a rapturous ovation when it was showcased in Liverpool

Mat Cullinane and Rob Brothwood, operating department practitioners at LUHFT, with a member of the Italian Air Ambulance Service in Tuscany, who are currently trialling the LEAFix device as part of their service

The power of an idea: How two Liverpool University Hospitals staff members are standardising surgical care across the world

13 Sept 2024

The LEAFix airway securing device

Becky Brumpton With Archie And Her Family

New NHS facility to support adults with additional needs who require surgery

26 Aug 2024

People with additional needs, such as autism and ADHD who require surgery at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital will now have access to two new sensory rooms, which have been designed to improve the experience of care for these patients.

Richard Kemp CBE, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, and Rosie Cooper, Mersey Care's chair (far right) with members of the Community Equipment Service

State-of-the-art community equipment site is unveiled in Liverpool

22 Aug 2024

Richard Kemp CBE, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, has officially opened a new state of the art equipment site which aims to help residents and those registered with a GP in the city to remain independent and mobile in their own homes.

Life-saving care being delivered for stroke patients from across Cheshire and Merseyside

14 Aug 2024

Last week The Walton Centre in Liverpool hosted a visit from NHS England Medical Director, Professor Sir Stephen Powis.

Mersey Care's Long Covid Service launches new exercise App for patients

12 Jul 2024

Mersey Care’s Long COVID service has developed content for an online app to help speed up the recovery of patients suffering from the effects of the debilitating condition.

Liverpool’s next three Family Hubs launched

14 May 2024

Liverpool City Council has launched three further Family Hub networks.

Cancer survivors’ lives set to improve through world’s biggest head and neck research study in Liverpool

09 May 2024

Liverpool University Hospitals is collaborating with academics worldwide to change the lives of head and neck cancer survivors in the world’s largest head and neck clinical trial, called PATHOS.

‘Game-changing’ new laser beam therapy for epileptic seizures comes to Cheshire and Merseyside

06 May 2024

The Walton Centre will be one of two centres in the country commissioned to offer a “game-changing” new laser beam therapy next month to help reduce seizures for patients with epilepsy.

Kenny and Marina Dalglish with the da Vinci SP

Liverpool University Hospitals becomes first centre in Europe to use pioneering robotic-assisted surgical system for head and neck cancers

01 May 2024

Patients in Cheshire and Merseyside have become the first in Europe to be offered pioneering robotic-assisted surgery for head and neck cancers with Intuitive’s da Vinci Single Port (SP) surgical system, thanks to a £1m donation from the Marina Dalglish Appeal.

Alder Hey first in the world to perform Deep Brain Stimulation using pioneering new technology

17 Apr 2024

Alder Hey Children's Hospital has recently performed Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) using a new advanced device to help treat dystonia.

Update on women’s hospital services in Liverpool

13 Mar 2024

James Sumner, Chair of the Women’s Hospital Services in Liverpool Programme Board, provides an update on the work to improve hospital maternity and gynaecology services in Liverpool.

A multi-million-pound state-of-the-art cardiac facility has formally opened in Liverpool

20 Feb 2024

The brand-new catheter laboratory development at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (LHCH) will enable thousands of cardiology procedures to be carried out every year to benefit patients across Cheshire and Merseyside.

Permanent Place Director for Liverpool appointed

06 Feb 2024

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside can announce that Mark Bakewell has been appointed as Place Director for Liverpool on a permanent basis.

Alder Hey Children's Hospital emergency department staff

Emergency department ranked top in the North West thanks to new initiatives

26 Jan 2024

Alder Hey Children's Hospital Paediatric Admissions Unit

Reablement service speeds up hospital recovery and reduced the amount of care needed after discharge

17 Jan 2024

Broadgreen Hospital Reablement Assessment Hub

Urgent geriatric service treats elderly patients quicker, avoiding long A&E waits and freeing up capacity

12 Jan 2024

Geriatric same-day emergency care (SDEC) service at the Royal Liverpool Hospital

Helping patients to regain their confidence and rebuild their strength after a fall

10 Jan 2024

Broadgreen Falls Clinic

Liverpool Women’s and Liverpool University Hospitals appoint joint Chair

20 Dec 2023

David Flory CBE has been appointed as joint Chair of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT) and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. He will start this joint role in March 2024.