Hospitals: Air Ambulance Services
Commons · Question 16317 · Tabled 6 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 16 Jul 2026
Question
Asked by Edward Morello
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that all major trauma hospitals have access to 24-hour helipad facilities.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 16 Jul 2026
Hospital helipads play an important role in supporting the transfer of critically ill patients and access to specialist services. Responsibility for the provision and management of hospital helipads rests with local National Health Service organisations, ...