Issue - meetings

Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service - Update

Meeting: 09/01/2018 - Health Select Committee (Item 8)

8 Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service - Update

To receive an update on progress from the NHS Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group.

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

The meeting received an update on progress from the NHS Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group regarding non-emergency patient transport.

 

Matter highlighted in the course of the debate included: the results of the recent consultation; the engagement via stakeholder events; theplans to promote the Healthcare Travel Cost Scheme more widely; that the draft contact should be reading in February with a view to go out market over the next 6 months; that the expectation was for the new provider to be in place in June 2019.

 

At the conclusion of the debate, the meeting;

 

Resolved

 

1.    To receive a further update, possibly in July, including further details of the contract;

 

2.    To receive, in the interim, further information regarding the breakdown of the consultation responses.