Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department monitors the performance of Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group's patient transport services.

The Department does not have responsibility for monitoring the performance of Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCGs) patient transport services.

We are advised by NHS England that the Sussex non-emergency Patient Transport Service (PTS) is managed by Coperforma who sub-contract to a variety of specialist ambulance and transport providers. Coperforma is therefore held accountable for the actions of all service providers it subcontracts to, as the organisation responsible for the entirety of the PTS.

Sussex CCGs are responsible for monitoring Coperforma’s performance.