More than £30 million spent on taxis for NHS patients

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More than £30 million spent on taxis for NHS patients

Date: 24 October 2011
Author: Sandra Patton

Figures have been published to show that more than £30million has been spent on taxis for NHS patients since 2008 because of a shortage of official non-emergency transport. Ashton KCJ’s Sandra Patton, a specialist in the medical injury team, comments: “This not only has implications for patient safety, and there are cases where ill patients who need medical support have been transferred by taxi rather than ambulance, but in a cash-strapped NHS it is clearly vital to target resources where they are needed, especially into nursing staff”.

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