Plans for an Urgent Care Centre at Westmorland General Hospital in Kendal received a boost following the announcement of a £100million funding pot for capital investment to relieve pressure on A&E services. South Lakes MP Tim Farron has written to the Health Secretary and to local health bosses to call for this project to be given the green light.
Grasmere resident Will Clark has been selected by the Lib Dems to stand in May as their county council candidate in the Lakes Division, covering Ambleside and Grasmere. Local MP Tim Farron has welcomed the decision, describing Will's story as "inspirational".
999 calls are emergencies and must be treated as such, according to South Lakeland MP Tim Farron. He has uncovered police figures showing that some callers have had to wait well over 3 minutes to get through to Cumbria Police after calling the emergency number, and hundreds of callers have hung up before getting through.
Commenting on Nicola Sturgeon's plans for a second independence referendum, South Cumbrian MP Tim Farron said:
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has vowed to continue to fight to protect local NHS services in South Cumbria, following the government's announcement in the budget that it would press ahead with savage NHS cuts. This news comes in the week that it was announced that beds would be closed and services removed from hospitals in North and West Cumbria.
South Lakeland MP Tim Farron has welcomed the news that Openreach, which runs the UK's broadband infrastructure, will split from BT. However, he has insisted that the government must not be complacent about the urgent need to improve "snail's-pace internet" in rural areas.
