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2. Patient transport - Wikipedia

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   Patient transport service is a separate provision from the Hospital Travel Costs scheme, which is means tested, to fund low-income patients' journeys to hospital. Clinical commissioning groups (CCG) often arranged for one CCG to manage the tendering and contracting process for a wide area.

3. Orderly - Wikipedia

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   In healthcare, an orderly (also known as a ward assistant, nurse assistant or healthcare assistant) is a hospital attendant whose job consists of assisting medical and nursing staff with various nursing and medical interventions. These duties are classified as routine tasks involving no risk for the patient. [1]

4. Ambulance - Wikipedia

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   Charity-funded service – Transport by ambulance may be provided free of charge to patients by a charity, although donations may be sought for services received. [77] Hospital-funded service – Hospitals may provide the ambulance transport free of charge, on the condition that patients use the hospital's services (which they may have to pay ...

5. Hospital porter - Wikipedia

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   Hospital porters are employed to move patients between wards and departments and to move goods and vital supplies including medical equipment, linen, blood, and samples. . This is generally not regarded as skilled work [citation needed], it attracts little attention [clarification needed] and pay and conditions are generally among the lowest in the hospital, Usually at the NHS Pay banding of ...

6. Emergency medical services - Wikipedia

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   Many countries employ ambulance staff who only carry out non-emergency patient transport duties (which can include stretcher or wheelchair cases). Dependent on the provider (and resources available), they may be trained in first aid or extended skills such as use of an AED, oxygen therapy, pain relief and other live-saving or palliative skills ...

7. Ambulance patient waits 19 hours outside hospital - AOL

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   A patient has waited 19 hours in the back of an ambulance outside a hospital's emergency department, the medical director of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) has said.