Edition 5 - Your MAGhull - Flipbook - Page 11
Pictured: Aspen Wood Low Secure Unit (LSU)
Maghull Health Park opened March 2024.
Maghull Health Park: Europe9s largest centre of excellence for forensic care
For locals, the siren test from Ashworth
Hospital is very familiar and the whole site9s
history is woven through many lives, from its
earliest days as the pioneering WW1 Moss
Side Hospital in 1933, then Park Lane in 1974.
They amalgamated into Ashworth High
Secure Hospital in 1989, just one of three in
the country providing highly specialist mental
healthcare for some of the most complex
people in the NHS. It9s now run by Mersey
Care NHS Founda}on Trust, one of the
largest local providers.
Ashworth received a ra}ng of 8Good9 during
its last inspec}on by na}onal regulators the
Care Quality Commission which included an
'Outstanding' in the Caring category.
This year the latest development opened to
pa}ents. Aspen Wood is a two-ward forensic
learning disability hospital. There9s a new
care model which supports complex people
that sees them progress to take their places
back in their own communi}es with support.
Again, Aspen Wood has won na}onal
a琀琀en}on and awards, including further
shortlis}ngs in the last few weeks. Par}cular
a琀琀en}on is given to designing beau}ful
buildings with gardens and open spaces
aiding recovery for pa}ents, o昀昀ering sta昀昀 a
posi}ve working environment and inves}ng
in the area9s built environment.
Both Aspen Wood and Rowan View
employed many local workers in their
construc}on phases. Our builders carried out
There9s now much more to the Mersey Care9s social value ac}vi}es locally, from scout huts
site than Ashworth. Maghull Health Park as
to schools9 careers sessions. And there9s the
it9s known is perhaps Europe9s largest centre busy trust hor}culture team, doing their bit
of excellence for forensic care, a major local for the Maghull area too.
employer and a strong force for reducing
With the opening of Maghull North sta}on
mental health s}gma.
and improvements to the M58 junc}on,
In 2020, during (and in spite of) the
Maghull Health Park is an increasingly
pandemic, a new hospital opened alongside desirable place to work, boos}ng the local
Ashworth. Rowan View replaced outdated
economy. Find out more about the site and
facili}es elsewhere on the trust9s patch,
its career opportuni}es: search online for
bringing medium secure care to the area.
8Maghull Health Park9.
Rowan View has won numerous awards for
its design and clinical team: four last year
By John Rowbotham (Mersey Care NHS
alone.
Communica}ons Manager.
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