The service(s) will be required to meet the following needs:

— pre-planned journeys including but not limited to transport to and from outpatient appointments/day cases/admissions and discharges from wards to their normal place of residence or step down care/assessment setting,

— on the day/short notice including but not limited to discharges from wards and A&E to their normal place of residence,

— planned Inter Hospital transfers to both NHS and independent sector where contracted — this excludes emergency transfers. This may also include an element of on the day/short notice transfers. It is expected that an MOU will be drafted between the PTS provider, main acute Trusts, EMAS and other relevant Ambulance Trusts,

— renal patients attending haemodialysis,

— end of life patients.

The service(s) will be required to meet the following needs:

— pre-planned journeys including but not limited to transport to and from outpatient appointments/day cases/admissions and discharges from wards to their normal place of residence or step down care/assessment setting

— on the day/short notice including but not limited to discharges from wards and A&E to their normal place of residence,

— planned Inter Hospital transfers to both NHS and Independent Sector where contracted — this excludes emergency transfers. This may also include an element of on the day/short notice transfers. It is expected that an MOU will be drafted between the PTS provider, main acute Trusts, EMAS and other relevant Ambulance Trusts,

— renal patients attending haemodialysis,

— end of life patients.