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The service the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) provide is based on a medical and mobility requirement and the Patient Needs Assessment (PNA) is designed to identify the patients who have the following needs. All patients requesting patient transport are taken through the PNA.

SAS support patients who:

• Require a high level of mobility assistance
• Need specialist ambulance equipment to help them mobilise
• Require oxygen and are unable to self-administer this during transportation
• Have a communicable disease with which travel on public/community transport or in a taxi is not advised, and do not have access to appropriate private transport
• Have undergone a procedure and the potential side effects of the treatment require the assistance of a trained ambulance crew for the return journey
• Have been clinically determined by an HCP as at risk from using alternative transport due to being immunocompromised and do not travel routinely by other means
• They have a cognitive or sensory impairment that requires oversight to safely travel, and no escort is travelling
• Have dementia, mental health conditions that means they are unable to make their own way with alternative transport and could be a risk to themselves or others

More information on Scheduled Care Service can be found on the SAS website at www.scottishambulance.com including information on some other alternative transport providers within the local area. Alternatively, patients/representatives can contact the attending hospital who may be able to provide additional advice on options for travelling to and from any future hospital appointments and if eligible, patients may be able to claim help with travel costs.