Information for health professionals can be found on the
following pages:
Emergency Bed Service
Our Emergency Bed Service helps NHS healthcare professionals
find hospital beds for seriously-ill patients. We arrange for
around 10,000 patients to be admitted to hospital or transferred
between hospitals every year, as well as a range of other
services.
Read more about the Emergency Bed
Service.
GP information
We know patients benefit when GPs are kept up to date. Here you
will find information about the services we provide and how we
will deal with your call.
Find out more about how we can help
GPs
Patient Transport Service
Our Patient Transport Service offer clinicians a range of
transport options to help them with the transfer of their patients.
We handle over 3,000 patient journeys a day to over 1,000 treatment
centres and have a variety of vehicles designed to meet the
different needs of patients.
Find out more about the Patient Transport
Service.
Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
We have procedures in place for staff to raise concerns about
the safety of children or vulnerable adults and for
safeguarding professionals to contact us where related information
is required.
Find out
more about safeguarding.
Caring for frequent callers
Of all the issues raised by our staff, incidents of persistent
and regular callers to the 999 service is one of the most
significant.
Find out about how we care for frequent
callers
Reporting incidents
Other healthcare professionals can also report incidents to us,
including requesting information about handover times at emergency
departments.
Find out more about reporting incidents.