Rapid premises adaptations create a Covid-19 HOT Hub in Liverpool

Liverpool & Sefton Health Partnership rapidly carried out a range of works to turn the South Liverpool Treatment Centre (SLTC) into a ‘Hot Hub’ for patients with Covid-19 symptoms. The building has been easily able to accommodate significant short-term premises adaptions with an eye on what longer term and perhaps permanent changes may be needed.

During the works, SLTC remained open and continued to offer limited services for green patients (non Covid) including phlebotomy, treatment rooms, urgent podiatry, and

anti-coagulation clinics.

With the co-operation of tenants, these services were relocated from Garston Suite to other clinical zones around the building, observing social distancing 2m rules and by appointment only. The two GP Practices and child immunisations continued in the GP area, by appointment only. The pharmacy on site also remained open. Read the full case study here:

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LSHP achieves RoSPA Gold Award for fifth year running

Liverpool & Sefton Health Partnership Ltd has been awarded the RoSPA Gold Medal (5 consecutive Golds) Award.

The Gold award in the prestigious annual scheme is run by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).

As the UK’s family safety charity, RoSPA’s mission to save lives and reduce injuries covers all ages and stages of life. In support of this mission, the RoSPA Awards, which celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2016, recognise commitment to continuous improvement in accident and ill health prevention at work. Through the scheme, which is open to businesses and organisations of all types and sizes from across the UK and overseas, judges consider entrants’ overarching occupational health and safety management systems, including practices such as leadership and workforce involvement.

David Rawlins, RoSPA’s awards manager, said: “The RoSPA Awards encourage improvement in occupational health and safety management. Organisations that gain recognition for their health and safety management systems, such as Liverpool & Sefton Health Partnership Ltd, contribute to raising standards overall and we congratulate them.”

Chair of Liverpool and Sefton Health Partnership, Humphrey Claxton said: “This is a great achievement. We take health and safety very seriously at LSHP and it is reassuring to have external confirmation that we are managing it well year after year. Congratulations to everyone involved”.

The majority of RoSPA’s awards are non-competitive, grading achievement at merit, bronze, silver and gold levels. Organisations that maintain high standards in consecutive years can win gold medals, president’s awards and orders of distinction.

Hope Centre Collaboration

A new inpatient addictions facility called the 'Hope Centre' has opened in Smithdown Health Park, Liverpool.

The new centre, which became operational in October 2017, represents significant investment by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in its estate. Working with LSHP and project architects Gilling Dod and design and construction teams, health partners and commissioners, the collaboration has created a bright, modern, inpatient facility for people who need detox for alcohol and or drug misuse.

The opening ceremony was an opportunity for LSHP to join with Mersey Care staff and partners to get their first proper look around the modern facility. After taking part in a series of mini tours of the building visitors reported how impressed they were with the high standard of refurbishment of what used to be the old Kevin White Unit, originally opened in 1996.

All patients at the Hope Centre will now have their own single bedroom and there are light, therapeutic areas for group work, with gender specific lounges and common day and ward areas.

Chief Operating Officer for Mersey Care’s Local Services, Donna Robinson, thanked all those involved in bringing the project to completion. The service also had the task of moving out of their ageing building located at Windsor Clinic at Aintree University Hospital.

Lead Consultant Dr Yasir Abbasi gave an overview of the service explaining that for every pound invested in health services such as this, it represents a social return on investment of around £2.50 to the wider community. He also paid tribute to the late Dr Kevin White who opened the first dedicated drug addictions clinic on the former Sefton General Hospital site located there many years before.

Graham Hignett | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust 

From Left: Lynne Hughes (Deputy Chief Operations Officer - Liverpool, MCFT), Mike Webb (Projects Director - LSHP) and Andrew Arnold (Managing Director - Gilling Dod Architects)