Infrastructure Strategy 2024-2040

This is a Lancashire and South Cumbria wide Infrastructure Strategy updating and building on Infrastructure Strategies of 2018 and 2019.

As a key and critical document for the ICB and our partner organisations it sets out the current and developing service strategies and plans of the ICB, our partner Trusts and associated Primary Care Networks.

It draws from and supports the ICB Strategic Objectives and Strategic Priorities.

The Strategy maps the service aspirations and transformational plans and sets these in the context of the existing infrastructure to identify actions to meet these service plans and aspirations.

Business cases and plans are supported that have an infrastructure component and in many instances will form a key component of the Strategic Case element of a Green Book business case for capital investment.

National policy initiatives affecting the infrastructure along with key dates are incorporated in the strategy including the new hospitals in the New Hospital Programme and our requirement to get to Net Zero Carbon by 2040.

The infrastructure can be both an enabler and a blocker to the service and transformational plans. As service strategies and plans are developed they can be aligned to this Strategy. This enables developments to be both affordable and deliverable from the perspective of our infrastructure and associated investment and disinvestment costs.

This Infrastructure Strategy introduces some key language that has been developed nationally by NHSE for describing NHS Infrastructure (Core Flex and Tail) which in turn will provide support and challenge for future investment prioritisation and funding locally and nationally.