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Health Services: Weather

Asked by Mr Andrew SnowdenConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 26 March 2025UIN 39626

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to increase NHS capacity for winter 2025-26 in Fylde constituency.

Answered by Karin Smyth

Local National Health Service winter resilience plans for the Flyde area specifically are an operational matter for NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) working in partnership with local NHS providers. The ICB’s planning for 2025/26 is ongoing, including the allocation of £24 million of capital funding to improve urgent and emergency care services.

At national level, we have communicated priorities for urgent and emergency care this year through the NHS England mandate and the operational planning guidance for 2025/26. We will shortly set out further actions and improvements to be taken this year to support urgent and emergency care services.

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