Lancashire and South Cumbria to receive more than £14.4 million for essential hospital repairs
Date posted: 6th June 2025
Nine hospitals in Lancashire and South Cumbria are set to benefit from more than £14.4 million in Government investment funding for essential maintenance and repairs.
Each of the NHS Trusts in the region will receive a share of the money, which is aimed at fixing crumbling buildings, leaky pipes, poor ventilation and electrical issues at sites across the country.
The national investment of £750 million, along with £470 million for schools and colleges, is part of government’s promise to deliver public infrastructure improvements through its Plan for Change.
Sam Proffitt, chief executive of NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, said: “We welcome the additional funding to tackle some long-standing issues and make some key upgrades at sites across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
“It is no secret that some of our ageing hospitals require a lot of extra maintenance each year, and these repairs are vital in ensuring we provide a safe and suitable setting for our patients and staff.”
With work on Lancashire and South Cumbria’s two new hospitals not due to begin until 2035 at the earliest, this extra funding is intended to make much-needed repairs, helping to prevent thousands of cancelled operations and appointments.
Blackpool Victoria Hospital will receive £1.4 million for widespread repairs that include roof works, structural repairs and building improvements, and Burnley General Hospital has been allocated £757,000 for improvements to building management systems, fire safety works and lift upgrades or replacements.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are set to receive more than £4.7 million to improve water, energy, and electrical systems, fixed and plant equipment, fire safety works and nurse call systems replacements across Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Chorley Hospital, and Royal Preston Hospital, and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust will be given just over £4.3 million to spend on improvements including internal building fabric and fixtures, fire safety work and roof works at Furness General Hospital, Royal Lancaster Infirmary, and Westmorland General Hospital.
The region’s mental health Trust Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust will receive more than £3.1 million for roof works at The Harbour hospital in Blackpool and their buildings at Royal Preston Hospital.
In addition, North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust has been allocated more than £2 million to improve fire safety works, heating systems and external and internal building fabric and fixtures at its Morecambe Station and at Emergency Operations Centres in Broughton, near Preston, and Parkway 3, near Manchester.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting, said: “A decade and a half of underinvestment left hospitals crumbling, with burst pipes flooding emergency departments, faulty electrical systems shutting down operating theatres, and mothers giving birth in outdated facilities that lack basic dignity.
“We are on a mission to rebuild our NHS through investment and modernisation.
“Patients and staff deserve to be in buildings that are safe, comfortable and fit for purpose. Through our Plan for Change, we will make our NHS fit for the future.”