Kensington and South Liverpool to light up for Covid Reflection Day

South Liverpool Treatment Centre and Kensington Neighbourhood Health Centre will light up yellow on 23 March to remember those who have lost their lives, or remain unwell, with Covid 19.

Covid Reflection Day, led by Marie Curie, is a day for people to come together and support those families and those who have lost loved ones during the pandemic. The day is designed to be about showing compassion to those around you and remembering how the pandemic has changed all of us.

As a partnership, Liverpool based LIFTCo, Liverpool & Sefton Health Partnership (LSHP), working together with Head Tenant, Community Health Partnerships (CHP), and FM provider Integral, will use the LED lights on the exterior facades of the two buildings.

The buildings will not just be lighting up for Covid Reflection Day but there is more scheduled throughout the year.

These two prominent NHS Neighbourhood Health Centres offer a wide range of health & wellbeing services designed to meet the needs of the local population, so it is hoped that the lights will stand out.

Andy Muir, CHP Regional Director – North West commented: “We have previously used the lights on days such as World Diabetes Day and they have a fantastic effect. Covid Reflection Day is an opportunity for us, as we look to the future post-pandemic now, to remember what we have all been through and show our support to those families who have lost loved ones. Our condolences are with them and we hope the lights go some way to showing our support for them, and the day in general.”

For more information about Covid Reflection Day 2022, please visit: https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/get-involved/day-of-reflection

Mossley Hill Hospital Redevelopment Update – February 2022

After seven months on site to remove old, worn out and unfit buildings at Mossley Hill Hospital, Liverpool, demolition experts Connell Brothers Limited have cleared the site and formally handed it back to our clients Mersey Care NHS Trust Foundation.

LSHP continue to support this major hospital redevelopment scheme and the next stage will see remedial site investigations and enabling works at the site’s previously adjoining Mossley House, an historic listed building, get underway.

This will pave the way for redeveloping the site as a state-of-the-art mental health hospital, offering 80 single en suite bedrooms, therapy and activity areas, and safe ward garden areas.

Subject to a statutory approvals process which has proceeded through its initial stages of scrutiny at local, regional and national level, the aim is to build the new hospital by 2024. Construction company GRAHAM has been appointed as the contractors for the new build.

Supporting the delivery of the COVID-19 Booster programme.

Using data gathered from the earlier utilisation and feasibility studies, we were able to free-up space in both the Southport Centre for Health and Wellbeing and the Ainsdale Centre for Health and Wellbeing to house a 7 day a week COVID-19 vaccine service.

In July this year the Ainsdale Centre for Health and Wellbeing was stepped down as a COVID-19 vaccine site. This allowed community services housed within the Southport Centre to be moved into the vacated space at the Ainsdale Centre, a move that freed-up more space at the Southport Centre for the booster clinic and in turn, increasing utilisation within both sites.

In December 2021 the government asked for the booster sites to step-up delivery to meet the demand for boosters to protect against the new COVID-19 variant. The Southport booster site is now back to running from 8am-8pm, 7 days a week, only closing on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and ongoing into 2022.