Air Ambulance Card to Provide Medical Evacuation Worldwide

July 7th, 2009 by Editor | 1 Comment

Air Ambulance Card® provides travelers with prepaid hospital-to-hospital air ambulance service, domestically and abroad.


Ambulance drivers set to share £1m pay-out

June 18th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Ninety drivers with a private ambulance company are set to share in huge payouts after winning a marathon dispute with their bosses


Patient Transport Service back in NHS hands

June 2nd, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

An NHS ambulance trust is set to win back the work to ferry 600 patients a day to hospital appointments in North Staffordshire


Ireland: Calls for ambulance regulation

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

A private ambulance service provider has called for regulation of the sector “to ensure patient safety”


Shetland plan independent ambulance

May 19th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Shetland could get a further three ambulances should a group of islanders proposing a community run service succeed with their ambition


Arms firm bids to buy ambulances

May 18th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

A private company is in talks with British local authorities to buy and lease back their fleets of ambulances, fire engines and police cars


Use of taxis sent ambulance service budget £375,000 over limits

May 14th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

North West Ambulance Service’s Patient Transport Service (PTS) also missed targets, spending thousands of pounds on taxis


Strike vote scuppers ambulance overhaul

April 29th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Controversial plans which would have put private ambulances on the streets of Lancashire and unqualified staff manning 999 vehicles have been withdrawn after ambulance workers threatened to strike


Hospital denies breathless patient ambulance

April 23rd, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

The partner of a man with severe breathing difficulties says she was disgusted after medical staff told him to pay for a taxi to transport him from Bishop Auckland General Hospital to Darlington for a potentially life-saving scan


Ambulance service outsourced

April 19th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Ambulance service outsourced

Hailed as ‘another triumph of public-private partnership’, it was announced that NHS ambulance services are to be outsourced to a joint venture initiative between Arriva Bus and NextDay Couriers. Under the new 999ArrivaNextDay service, members of the public requiring hospitalisation will either be picked up from a bus stop






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