Help shape the future of A&E services in Southport, Formby and West Lancashire

Friday, 4 July 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 consultation document outlines two specific options for bringing services together at one of these sites.  

The proposals come in response to some of the challenges the local healthcare system is facing and the ambition to improve services for patients.  

As a result, the NHS Shaping Care Together Programme has been tasked with finding solutions that will provide everyone with safe, high quality urgent and emergency care services, all day, every day.  

The three NHS partners working on the programme are Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board.

Before making any decisions, the views of people across the local community, patients and staff need to be heard and taken into account.

There are a number of ways to learn more about the programme and share your views:

The consultation is running for 13-weeks between 4 July and 3 October 2025.