Hospitals: Air Ambulance Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding is available to upgrade hospital helipads to enable night-time operation.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The Department does not hold centrally validated data on the number or proportion of major trauma hospitals in England that operate 24-hour hospital helicopter landing sites. Responsibility for the provision and operation of hospital helicopter landing sites rests with individual National Health Service organisations.
There is no specific national funding programme dedicated to upgrading hospital helicopter landing sites for night-time operation.
Decisions on investment in hospital helicopter landing sites, including any upgrades required to support night-time operations, are primarily a matter for local NHS organisations. Organisations may consider such improvements as part of their wider estate planning and capital investment priorities, subject to the availability of funding and any relevant local planning, environmental, and operational requirements.
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