| Heading: |
Patients: Transport |
| Question ID: |
1810763 |
| UIN: |
58469 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-09 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5300 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Kevin McKenna
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Kevin McKenna
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what safeguards his Department has put in place to protect patients being transported to hospital by private patient transport companies on behalf of local NHS integrated care boards. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-16 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Answer text: |
Health and social care service providers that carry out a regulated activity in England must be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Providers of ambulance and other transport services usually need to register for the regulated activity ‘Tra... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |