18/07/2025
A public consultation has been launched asking people to share their views on where A&E services across Southport, Formby and West Lancashire should be located.
Services are currently split across two sites with children’s A&E at Ormskirk Hospital and the adult A&E in Southport. The local NHS partners (Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board) have been working together to find a solution that will provide everyone with safe, high quality urgent and emergency care services.
The consultation document outlines two specific options for bringing services together at one of these sites. Before making any decisions, we need the views of people across the local community. Please take this opportunity by following the links below, reading the consultation documents, completing the survey and/or attending one of the public events.
The consultation will run until 3 October 2025.
The following links can be used to access relevant documentation about the consultation, and the survey which you can complete to have your say:
Shaping Care Together website:
Your Say Shaping Care Together
Summary consultation document:
https://yoursayshapingcaretogether.co.uk/30670/widgets/128132/documents/86936
Easy Read Consultation document:
https://yoursayshapingcaretogether.co.uk/30670/widgets/128132/documents/86937
Survey:
Survey on proposals for urgent and emergency care services | Your Say Shaping Care Together
Public Events programme:
Public events programme | Your Say Shaping Care Together
