NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) has awarded the contract for community health services in West Lancashire to NHS Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust following a competitive procurement process.

Further information on the temporary situation affecting Longridge Hospital.

Residents in Lancashire and South Cumbria are being encouraged to have their say as the NHS updates three more of its policies on treatments.

Senior leaders across Lancashire and South Cumbria have committed to a new way of working which supports independence, wellbeing and puts residents' needs at the centre of decision making.

Update on Coniston Medical Practice

Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) have agreed that LSCFT will continue to accept referrals for the un-commissioned children and young people's ADHD and ASD service for those with no additional mental health diagnosis until 31 March 2026.

On Friday 20 February, Dr Minal Bakhai, Director of Primary Care and Community Transformation and Improvement for NHS England and lead for the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme visited Kendal Leisure Centre to hear more about the work taking place to support neighbourhoods in Morecambe Bay. Minal is visiting each pilot site in the programme, of which Morecambe Bay is one of 43 places across England to be part of Wave One, and she was particularly keen to learn about the approaches we are taking to neighbourhood health and wellbeing, what has worked well and what could be replicated.

We would like to provide an update on Coniston Medical Practice. We have unfortunately received no bids for the contract to provide general medical services at Coniston Medical Practice which was live on the Find A Tender portal from 23 December 2025 until 4 February 2026. We allowed an additional two weeks over the standard 30 days for any interested parties to prepare their bid. The ICB will now consider options for how patients in the Coniston area can continue to receive services and a decision will be taken in due course. We will provide an update on this as soon as we are able. In the meantime, the practice will continue to run as it has under the management of the Morecambe Bay Primary Care Collaborative.

Three health centres in East Lancashire are benefiting from major investment projects during 2026.

Primary Care Network engages volunteer group to improve cervical screening uptake