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Non emergency patient transport contracts

UK public sector · 56 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

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Contracts awarded
56
Last 12 months
Median contract
£2.6m
Recorded value
Recorded value
£759m
50 of 56 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
35
Suppliers
30

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most non emergency patient transport contracts took 34% of them (19 of 56).
  • The median contract, £2.6m, is 26 times the median across transport & logistics contracts (£101k).
  • North West had the most contracts: 12, or 21% of the total.

Who buys non emergency patient transport

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Somerset NHS Foundation Trust5 contracts
  2. 2NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB4 contracts
  3. 3The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust4 contracts
  4. 4Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4 contracts
  5. 5NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board3 contracts
  6. 6Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2 contracts
  7. 7Whittington Health NHS Trust2 contracts
  8. 8NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board2 contracts
  9. 9Croydon Health Services NHS Trust2 contracts
  10. 10Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts

Top non emergency patient transport contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1HATS Group5 contracts
  2. 2EMED Group4 contracts
  3. 3Access Anyone Ltd4 contracts
  4. 4West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts
  5. 5360 Ambulance Service Ltd3 contracts
  6. 6ERS Medical2 contracts
  7. 7Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust2 contracts
  8. 8Community Ambulance Service Limited2 contracts
  9. 9North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust2 contracts
  10. 10Health Transportation Group UK2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

10Q4 2025*18Q1 202615Q2 202613Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 56

North West12London9Yorkshire and The Humber8North East7South West7East of England5South East4East Midlands2West Midlands2

What is included

Planned and unplanned non-emergency transport of eligible patients to and from outpatient appointments, admissions, discharges, dialysis and oncology treatment and between hospitals, including eligibility checking, booking and control, and taxi or private provider capacity bought to support an NHS patient transport service.

  • Planned and unplanned patient transport services
  • Renal dialysis and oncology journeys
  • Bariatric and end-of-life patient transport
  • Inter-hospital non-emergency patient transfers
  • NEPTS vehicle and operator frameworks, including taxis for eligible patients
  • Patient transport booking and scheduling services
  • Council-funded non-emergency medical transport to appointments

What is not included

  • 999 response, clinically staffed urgent transfers and event medical cover (another industry: healthcare)
  • Secure transport of detained patients (sec.custody.secure-patient-transport)
  • Ambulance and patient transport vehicle supply (trn.vehicle.ambulances)
  • Staff taxis (trn.taxi.taxi-and-private-hire)
  • Pathology specimen couriers (trn.post.pathology-and-specimen-courier)
  • Patient transport scheduling software bought alone (it.lob.passenger-transport-scheduling)
  • Home from hospital settling-in support (soc.prev.home-from-hospital)
  • Ambulance cleaning and make-ready (cln.trans.ambulance-make-ready)

Often bought by the same buyers