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

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

Welsh Ambulance Services’ North Wales Non Emergency Transport Booking Centre (NET Centre) organises transport to and from hospitals and clinics for patients attending appointments and for those being transferred from one hospital to another

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

Concerns have been raised for the welfare of elderly patients left on hospital trolleys for hours while they wait to be taken back to care homes