Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 16314

Hospitals: Air Ambulance Services

Tabled: 6 July 2026

Answered: 13 July 2026

Question

Edward Morello

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislative safeguards to protect hospital helipads from closure.

Answer

Karin Smyth

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, ...

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