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LCH launches major staff engagement programme

Liverpool Community Health (LCH) NHS Trust is putting its Board members back on the ‘front line’ as it launches a staff engagement campaign to mark its two year anniversary today.

Over the coming weeks, Board members will be going ‘back to the floor’ to meet staff and discuss the Trust’s ambitious five year vision, and celebrate the crucial contribution that staff make to LCH’s success.

Liverpool Community Health was first established as a Trust on 1 November 2010, and since then, it has delivered community based healthcare services and health promotion to the 750,000 residents of Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley and neighbouring areas of Merseyside.

As one of the largest NHS Community Health Trusts in the North West, the organisation currently employs over 3,500 staff, providing over 65 different health services from over 100 different community locations, as well as in patients’ own homes.

The Trust’s core services include District Nursing, GPs, Community Matrons, School Nurses, Health Visitors, Dental Services, Walk-in Centres, and Sexual Health. It also provides more specialist health services such as Prison Healthcare, a Community Equipment and Wheelchair Service, and a range of outreach projects for vulnerable groups.

Bernie Cuthel, Chief Executive of Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust says, “Building on the success of our recent AGM, we are now working to deliver a major programme of staff and public engagement. It is our aim to develop a movement of ambassadors who really understand, and take ownership of, the trust’s strategic vision.

“We want to ensure that the Trust reaches out to everyone in our local communities, particularly hard-to-reach groups. Our staff are critical to this success as they have access to people in their own homes and communities, which offers us the opportunity to interact with people in a way that many traditional health services cannot.”

One of the Trust’s major areas of innovation is its ambitious plans to become one of the first Community Health Foundation Trusts in the country, allowing local people to have greater influence over the future of their health care services.

Bernie Cuthel adds, “Having an active and engaged staff and public membership is the next critical step for us, as it will enable us to strengthen our accountability to individuals, families and communities about how we deliver their different local health services.

“For the first time ever residents will also be able to become members and governors of the Trust, and share their views with us to help shape and improve their health services.”

For more information about Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust, please visit: www.liverpoolcommunityhealth.nhs.uk

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