About us
The Trust provides acute and community healthcare services at St Helens and Whiston Hospitals, both of which are modern, high quality facilities. Community Intermediate Care services are delivered from Newton Community Hospital in Newton-le-Willows, and during 2019/20, the Trust became the provider of the Urgent Treatment Centre, operating from the Millennium Centre, which is in the centre of St Helens and a range of other community nursing services from clinics and GP surgeries across St Helens. MWL provides the community services for St Helens but works closely with Mersey Care NHSFT and Bridgewater Community Services NHSFT in the other boroughs covered by the Trust’s services.
Alongside these community and secondary care services, the Trust also provides primary care services from the Marshalls Cross Medical Centre, which is located at St Helens Hospital. The Trust provides care to patients across five boroughs: St Helens, Sefton, Knowsley, West Lancashire, and Halton and two Integrated Care Systems – NHS Cheshire and Merseyside and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria. The catchment population for MWL is approximately 650,000 people. There are also attendances from Liverpool, Warrington, and Wigan at our hospitals. MWL hosts the Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Regional Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital which provides care and treatment for patients from across Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales, the Isle of Man, and other parts of the North West, serving a population of over 4 million. St Helens Hospital also houses one of the networked specialist neurorehabilitation wards for patients from the mid-Mersey area and has been designated as a Community Diagnostic Centre.
Our values
Our vision and objectives
Our Vision underpins the Trust objectives, which set out plans for improving safety, care, systems, communication and pathways of treatment, supported by robust operational and financial performance and strategic developments.
The Trust objectives are refreshed every year, reflecting our national and local goals. This has been developed collectively by our stakeholders, carers, patients and staff as well as the Trust’s own development plans. With an aim of creating something together to capture a holistic view, where our patients remain at the heart of everything we do.
Our services
Acute Care
We provide emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, as well as a range of medical and surgical specialties across all our hospitals, including St Helens and Newton.
Primary Care
We provide primary care services from Marshalls Cross Medical Centre, situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
We provide adult community services for the Borough of St Helens, and a wheelchair service for people in Chorley, South Ribble and West Lancashire.
Our inpatient unit, at Newton Community Hospital, is where patients who longer need an acute hospital bed can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for patients who are more unwell.
Additionally, we provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre in the Millennium Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We also provide the Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the spinal injuries unit at Southport District General Hospital, to more than four million people across the whole of Merseyside and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.