Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 58469
Patients: Transport
Tabled: 9 June 2025
Answered: 16 June 2025
Question
Kevin McKenna
Labour — Sittingbourne and Sheppey
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what safeguards his Department has put in place to protect patients being transported to hospital by private patient transport companies on behalf of local NHS integrated care boards.
Answer
Karin SmythHealth and social care service providers that carry out a regulated activity in England must be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Providers of ambulance and other transport services usually need to register for the regulated activity ‘Tra...
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