About us
Who we are
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (MWL) serves a large and diverse population, supported by a dedicated workforce of around 11,000 skilled staff.
Our teams deliver care across hospitals, community settings, and in patients’ own homes.
We are committed to ensuring that every community we serve has access to Five Star Patient Care.
What we do
MWL provides acute, intermediate, community, and primary care services from 17 locations, including Whiston, Southport, St Helens, Ormskirk, and Newton hospitals.
We also deliver specialist regional services in burns, plastic surgery, and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man, and North Wales.
St Helens Hospital is home to a networked specialist neuro-rehabilitation ward for patients from the mid-Mersey area, Marshalls Cross Medical Centre, and has been designated as a Community Diagnostic Centre.
Maternity services are provided at Whiston and Ormskirk hospitals, with community midwifery services delivered across our footprint.
The Trust also manages St Helens Urgent Treatment Centre.
Our care spans five boroughs – St Helens, Sefton, Knowsley, West Lancashire, and Halton – and supports two Integrated Care Systems: NHS Cheshire and Merseyside and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria.
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.
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.
