Hospitals: Lancaster

(asked on 7th February 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains her Department's policy to build a new hospital in Lancaster.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 19th February 2024

We remain committed to delivering a new hospital for University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, for the new Royal Lancaster Infirmary. This is alongside our commitment for a new hospital for the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, for the new Royal Preston Hospital.

Up until the end of the 2022/23, we provided the trusts with over £11 million in funding to further develop the plans for the new hospitals. Additionally, we have already provided over £450,000 to both trusts in 2023/24 for surveys and land assessments on potential sites for the new hospitals.

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