Health boards: duty to work with community transport bodies
Heath boards: duty to work with community transport bodies – section 121
546.Section 121 requires health boards to work with providers of community transport services in the provision of non-emergency patient transport services. In this context, “community transport services” means community bus services within the meaning of section 22(1) of the Transport Act 1985 and such other transport services which are provided by a body concerned with the social and welfare needs of one or more communities, without a view to profit by that body or anybody else, as specified in regulations by the Scottish Ministers. In order to monitor compliance with that duty, section 121(3) requires health boards to publish a report for each financial year setting out how they have complied with the duty, whether non-emergency patient transport services in that year have been effective and cost-effective, and what, if any, further action they propose to take to comply with the duty in the future.
