Ground breaking at Mersey Care Specialist Secure Hospital

20th September 2021

VINCI's IHP team (joint venture between VINCI Building and Sir Robert McAlpine) along with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust have officially broken ground at the site of a new 40-bed specialist hospital for people with learning disabilities at Maghull Health Park, Merseyside.

Preliminary work is now under way for a state of the art hospital which will be a landmark in a new model of care.

The hospital will be built on approximately 6.5 acres of land to the east of Villas Road on the Mersey Care-owned site, following approvals from Sefton Council’s planning committee and the Department of Health and Social Care.

Mersey Care’s Chief Executive, Professor Joe Rafferty CBE, said: “We are delighted to have started work on this new chapter of learning disability care. It builds on a long tradition of hospitals providing specialist care in the Maghull area and is another part of our development of Maghull Health Park as a Centre of Excellence.

“This new hospital has been designed with great precision and care. It will look beautiful and will include low carbon features and be energy efficient. Essentially though it will provide support for people across the region requiring complex care in a therapeutic low secure setting to the very highest standards that they deserve and need.”

NHS England Regional Medical Director for Commissioning Dr Michael Gregory said: “I’m delighted to see Mersey Care’s commitment to an innovative new model of care being realised in Maghull. We want to see this site supporting vulnerable people through services and back into their own communities. I look forward to seeing work here progress.”

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