Non-Emergency Patient Transport Market Engagement (BSol and BC ICBs)

[Comprehensive health services] NHS Birmingham & Solihull ICB and NHS Black Country ICB are seeking to carry out a market engagement event with those providers with suitable knowledge and experience to provide a Non-Emergency patient transport service for patients in Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country.

The service will cover a wide range of healthcare premises across Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country, with a requirement to carry out cross-place and out of area transport requests as appropriate. It is intended that this service will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year with the successful provider working closely with acute, mental health and community healthcare settings to ensure capacity aligns with patient attendance patterns. Further details can be found in the draft service specification with is available to download from the Atamis portal. Activity data is also available for provider's perusal.

The ICB intends to hold a market engagement event on Wednesday October 21st at 0900hrs. Providers are asked to register for the market engagement via the Atamis Health Family Portal. There will be an opportunity for providers to request 1:1 appointments via the questionnaire which will be available on the Atamis portal.