What has happened so far?
December 2025 onwards: Discussions with partners, including local NHS trust boards and local authorities, about the draft business case. Also the start of planning for an external review of the draft business case by clinicians from a different part of the country.
November 2025: Draft business case presented to private meeting of Board of NHS Cheshire and Merseyside.
November 2025: The Women’s Services Committee reviewed draft business case.
July to November 2025: Development of a draft business case for the future of hospital gynaecology and maternity services in Liverpool, including potential options.
May to September 2025 - options process: Local doctors, nurses and midwives, those with lived experience of gynaecology and maternity services (members of our Lived Experience Panel), and other partners, come together in workshops to develop potential options for how services could look in the future. Alongside this, work took place to understand what each potential option would mean for estates (buildings), finance and workforce (staffing).
March 2025: Women’s Services Committee received a report into the autumn 2024 public engagement and approved the options process. The Board of NHS Cheshire and Merseyside also received the public engagement report.
October to November 2024: Engagement events took place both in person and online inviting people to share their views on the case for change.
October 2024: The Board of NHS Cheshire and Merseyside approved the Gynecology and Maternity Hospital Services in Liverpool Case for Change.
2022: NHS Cheshire and Merseyside oversaw a review which looked at how all of Liverpool’s hospitals could work better together to improve care for patients, known as the Liverpool Clinical Services Review.
2016: A proposal was developed for a new Liverpool Women’s Hospital alongside an adult hospital, but this plan did not move forward because funding wasn’t available.
2015: Issues were first recognised in 2015, when the Board of Directors at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust said that they felt services were unsustainable in their current form.