NORTH WEST AMBULANCE SERVICE

That this House pays tribute to the lifesaving work undertaken every day by the North West Ambulance Service; notes that the geographical properties and often sparse population of Cumbria means that ambulances which are assigned for cover for South Lakeland patients are often drawn further south from their base due to the acute centres being located at Lancashire hospitals; further notes with concern that, although ambulance cover is commissioned according to demand by level of activity, this provision does not take into any consideration the geography, demography or risk to patient; and calls on the North West Clinical Commissioning Group to commission at least one additional ambulance for South Lakeland in order to guarantee that there is ambulance cover in South Lakeland at all times.