Liverpool's New Specialist Dementia Service
Channel: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Date: 13/05/2021

Work on Phase 2 of a new specialist dementia care service in Thomas Lane, Knotty Ash, Liverpool is due for completion by the end of May 2021. Run by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, it provides a 16-bed inpatient service that will be co-located with an older adult/complex care community mental health team. In addition to assessment and short term hospital stays, the unit offers a multidisciplinary approach to treatment, care and support for patients with advanced dementia, also liaising with local authority and social workers. 

The Thomas Leigh building (soon to be renamed) has been transformed into a dementia-friendly environment with single bedrooms and en suite bathrooms, colour schemes and design features that promote spatial awareness, the ability to help patients understand and interact with the environment around them. Once building works are complete a dementia-friendly garden area will be created. 

Watch our look back at services at the service’s former Mossley Hill Hospital site, to be redeveloped as one of our new generation of mental health hospitals:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iAO-G01arc