St John Ambulance crews are playing a vital part in making a difference to the region’s emergency response system. St John Ambulance vehicles and crews in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham are on stand-by to provide extra cover and back up to the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS). The back-up ambulances are booked [...]

EMAS have lost out on a £20m contract to provide non-emergency patient transport in favour of private sector companies. East Midlands Ambulance Service who currently provide the service would have used the contract – worth £19.9m annually – to buy a brand new, eco-friendly fleet. Instead, the East Midlands Procurement and Commissioning Transformation on behalf [...]

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