The plans by the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership Trust were revealed in a Wirral Place Based Partnership Board meeting as members discussed whether to move forward with the plans. The project is planned to cost £11.9m according to a report and would likely be built at Arrowe Park Hospital.
It will also contain a facility called a Section 136 service for those detained under the Mental Health Act to keep them safe. Health officials said current services were facing unprecedented numbers in hospitals ahead of the winter. Suzanne Edwards from NHS Cheshire and Merseyside said hospitals were seeing increased numbers of people in the emergency department, more people staying a lot longer in hospital, and people who had never used services before.
Dr Abel Adegoke said: "This is music to my ears. I am so happy about it because it's something that I dread every day that I don't want to have a mental health problem because there is no good service in a crisis."