The service consists of:

Assessment team of community psychiatric nurses who will complete a frontline assessment to establish the severity of your mental health difficulties.

Community mental health team who work with people who have enhanced and complex mental health needs. This team aims to promote independence in a number of ways to reduce the frequency and severity of any future crisis. The team comprises community mental health nurses (CPNs), occupational therapists, social workers and support workers.

Memory team works with people who have a diagnosis of dementia and have started memory medication. They provide regular reviews and support to service users and their carers. They run various groups for both service users and carers. The team comprises: community psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists and support workers.

Older person’s psychiatric liaison service based at Lancashire House, Warrington General Hospital. This service provides psychiatric liaison to service users who are inpatients at Warrington General Hospital or Halton General Hospital and who have a diagnosis of dementia or age related cognitive impairment. The service is run by a senior nurse practitioner.

If you require further information please do not hesitate to contact us on 01928 753162.

Collaborative working

The LLAMS service work closely with service users, carers and all other agencies including the local Alzheimer’s Society to try to assist the service user and their carers to receive the necessary care, support and treatment required to maintain quality of life.

Referral process

Referral is via your GP, accident and emergency department or older person’s liaison service.

Upon receipt of a referral, the team will screen the information and where possible, contact the person who has been referred, or their carer, to take further details.

If the referral is appropriate for the team, the service user will be given an appointment for a detailed assessment and appropriate support within 10 days of receipt for routine referrals, or one day if the referral is urgent.

Hours of opening

Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm
Out of hours and weekends, phone: 0345 050 0148.

The Data Protection Act 1998

The Data Protection Act 1998 Protects the confidentiality of any written or computerised information of a personal nature. All staff have a legal duty to adhere to the Act.

Information will be shared with others involved in your care, such as your GP. If you have any concerns about this, please raise them with a member of our service.

Useful contact numbers

Hollins Park: 01925 664000
Alzheimer’s Society: 0151 420 8010

For more information:

Contact:

Jaymie Armitage
Clinical Team Manager
Later Life and Memory Service
The Brooker Centre
Hospital Way
Runcorn
WA7 2DA

Tel: 01928 247 100

Our patients matter

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust listens and responds to patients and their carers to help improve the services we deliver.

If you have any comments,compliments or concerns you can speak with a member of staff or contact our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) and Complaints Team.

Telephone: 0151 471 2377
Freephone: 0800 328 2941
Email: palsandcomplaints@merseycare.nhs.uk

Mersey Care NHS Foundation TrustV7 Building, Kings Business Park, Prescot L34 1PJ


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