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Mersey Care NHS Trust is a specialist mental health NHS trust and a provider of learning disabilities, addiction management and acquired brain injury services. The trust provide secure mental health services for the North West of England, the West Midlands and Wales, one of only three NHS organisations in England offering high secure services.
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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 opened a new hospital, Clock View Hospital in Walton. It has a psychiatric intensive care unit for people who need intensive short-term treatment and assessment.
In June 2015 it was reported to be considering a merger with Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust which currently has a turnover of £42 million per year.
It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 3448 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.77%. 58% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 53% recommended it as a place to work.
In 2016 it took over the former Walton Carnegie library in order to set up a new centre for learning, recovery, health and wellbeing.