Patients: Transport
(asked on 6th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has altered the eligibility for patients receiving free transport to hospital.
This question was answered on 15th November 2017
The eligibility criteria to receive patient transport services is set out in Eligibility Criteria for Patient Transport Services (2007). The Department has not altered these criteria.
The provision of appropriate patient transport services is a matter for local National Health Service commissioners. Patient transport services are regulated by the Care Quality Commission.