Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Preston called the NHS 111 helpline in 2014.

NHS England collects data for the whole of the North West of England. In this area, which includes Preston, the NHS 111 service is provided by the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust and Fylde Coast Medical Services. There were 961,859 calls in 2014. 795,453 of these were handled by the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, and 166,406 by Fylde Coast Medical Services.

Source: NHS 111 monthly minimum data set from NHS England, NHS 111 monthly publication at www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/category/statistics/nhs-111-statistics.