Mersey Care NHS Trust

Mersey Care NHS Trust provides mental health services and runs Ashworth Hospital in Maghull, Merseyside. As a provider of high security mental health care it is directly accountable to the Secretary of State for Health, not to Monitor. For this reason it is described as an Equivalent NHS foundation trust, one of three. The other two are Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and West London Mental Health NHS Trust.

It also runs mental health wards at Rathbone Hospital in Wavertree, the Broadoak Unit at Broadgreen Hospital, Mossley Hill Hospital, Windsor House on Upper Parliament Street in Central Liverpool and Heys Court in Garston, Merseyside The Trust has commissioned a new building called Clock View on the site of the former Walton Hospital. It will treat adults with a range of common mental illnesses including depression and anxiety, as well as provide Liverpool's only psychiatric intensive care unit for people who need more intensive short-term treatment and assessment.^[1]

The Trust is about to open a new hospital, Clock View Hospital in Walton, which will have a psychiatric intensive care unit with single rooms throughout and en-suite bathrooms.^[2]

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