NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (NHS GGC) and NHS Lanarkshire (NHSL) require suitably qualified and experienced licensed contractors to undertake Non-Ambulatory Patient Transport services in order to procure a single high quality solution covering both Boards.
NHS GGC will act as the procurement lead for this procurement exercise; and NHSL will be a named organisation with access to the framework terms for their own service delivery requirements.
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Although most of patient transport in this context is provisioned via the Scottish Ambulance Service, there are occasions where capacity is maximised and it is against this backdrop that the Health Board requires additional patient transport. The transport required is e.g.
Non-ambulatory patients who require to be conveyed on a stretcher
Non-ambulatory patients who require to be conveyed on a trolley/stretcher, chair or stair climbers.
Some patients can be ambulant but require assistance walking to and from their homes and hospital/treatment centres.
This can be for situations where:
A patient is receiving palliative care and needs to be transferred home or to a care home
A patient requires to be transferred from an acute hospital to another hospital.
A patient requires a transfer from an acute hospital in Greater Glasgow & Clyde and Lanarkshire to another acute hospital out with Greater Glasgow & Clyde and Lanarkshire and then potentially returnedValue not published