Lancashire and South Cumbria formed a sustainability and transformation plan area in March 2016 with Amanda Doyle OBE the Chief Clinical Officer of Blackpool CCG as its leader.
[3] In February 2018 it was reported that the Better Together project in Morecambe Bay had seen a 7.8% reduction in the emergency admissions rate in the area between 2014–15 and the 12 months to September 2017.
Virgin Care won a five-year contract for services previously provided by Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust in West Lancashire in 2016.
The Fylde Coast Multispecialty community provider has reduced A&E visits from people over 60 with long term conditions by 13%, and emergency admissions by 25%.
[11] In December 2018 Lancashire County Council awarded a five-year contract, worth £20.8 million a year, for the Healthy Child Programme to Virgin Care.
According to a study by the Carnall Farrar consultancy in 2020 rates of delayed discharges and stranded patients in hospitals in the region were among the highest in England.
[15] A provider collaborative was established in 2021, chaired by Kevin McGee, chief executive of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
[17] The Chief Constable of Lancashire, Andy Rhodes, complained in November 2018 that the police were “picking up the pieces of a system that is falling apart”.