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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Mersey care - The Untold Story

Drugs, overcrowding and maggots: The troubled past of HMP Kennet

HMP Kennet will once described as poorly designed and expensive

Liverpool Echo

'UK's most overcrowded prison' to be demolished

The infamous HMP Kennet was shut down in 2016

Liverpool Echo

NHS chiefs urged to overturn medical centre closure decision

Labour MPs write to NHS in a bid to save Park View Medical Centre

Liverpool Echo

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'Beautiful' mum's death exposed 'fundamental flaws' in mental health care

An inquest found there were "a catalogue of serious missed opportunities" to save Zainab Mohamed

Liverpool Echo

Abandoned mental health centre where mattresses lie on floor to go up for auction

The disused building has been empty for years

Liverpool Echo

Almost 300 Mersey Care staff to strike in row over pay

GMB union said "NHS is on life support" as more action confirmed

Liverpool Echo

Suicide rates double in Liverpool and Wirral since 2019

Nearly 10% of people who died in unusual circumstances last year were found to have taken their own lives

Liverpool Echo

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Nurse cornered by racist patient trying to 'stab him to death' after alarm didn't go off

Edward Inatimi was racially abused and physically attacked by Raymond Pearse, 74, on April 18 last year. The nurse was left bleeding from wounds to his stomach after the violent attack

Daily Mirror

Nurse stabbed after alarm failed in middle of attack by patient

Edward Inatimi said: "The horror of having to fight for my life at work, where I should be safe, plagues me"

Liverpool Echo

Prime Minister Liz Truss to face first by-election test as Labour MP quits

Labour MP Rosie Cooper is to leave the House of Commons

Wales Online

Labour MP Rosie Cooper to stand down, triggering by-election test for Liz Truss

The MP for West Lancashire, said she had accepted the position of chair of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

The Independent UK

Rosie Cooper MP resigns triggering by-election in Labour heartland seat

She had been targeted in a murder plot in 2017

Evening Standard

West Lancashire by-election as MP Rosie Cooper resigns to follow 'passion'

The Labour MP has announced her decision to resign and take on a new role

Liverpool Echo

Controversial electroshock therapy is used 47 times more here than elsewhere

At least one patient has had the seizure-inducing treatment a hundred times, campaigners claim

Bristol Post

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Management branded 'inconsistent' at Toxteth care home

The care home currently has 102 residents

Liverpool Echo

Mersey Care staff claim they've been 'underpaid and paid late for three months'

A spokesperson for Mersey Care told the ECHO that they were aware that some staff may have occasional issues with pay

Wales Online

Teen died alone in hospital room despite five-minute checks by health workers

Sarah-Louise Doyle, 19, was found hanging from a bathroom door by a support worker - prompting concerns about the checks being too predictable

Daily Record

Tragedy as teen takes her own life in five-minute window between hospital checks

The 19-year-old, described as the 'life and soul of the party' and someone who was 'always helping everybody out', had struggled with mental health.

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'Kind' teen, 19, will 'fly high' after she died during five-minute window in hospital

Sarah-Louise Doyle was described as someone who 'would always help everybody out'

Daily Mirror

Teenager took her own life in five-minute window between hospital suicide checks

Sarah-Louise Doyle, 19, from Bootle, Merseyside, took her own life at Clock View Hospital in Liverpool, leading to calls for changes to suicide watch protocol

Manchester Evening News

Tragedy as girl on suicide watch killed herself in five minute window between hospital checks

Sarah-Louise had 'always seemed happy' but struggled with her mental health

Liverpool Echo

'Kind and quirky' teen died in five-minute window while alone in hospital room

Sarah-Louise Doyle was an inpatient at Clock View Hospital when she took her own life

Liverpool Echo

Woman pretending to be off sick cheated NHS out of £40,000

NHS support worker Zahida Bibi completed a full-time nursing degree while still receiving her wages

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