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Transport (Scotland) Act 2019

Health boards: duty to have regard to community benefit in non-emergency patient transport contracts

Heath boards: duty to have regard to community benefit in non-emergency patient contracts - section 120

545.Section 120 requires each health board entering into a contract for the provision of non-emergency patient transport services to have regard to the extent to which that contract will improve economic, social or environmental wellbeing in the board’s area.

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