Facts and Figures

1980s

Medical Services roots go back more than 40 years to the Harley Street Runners, a small private courier company supplying foot messengers, cycle and motor cycle couriers to the local private health community in central London.

2003

As part of the Lewis Day Transport Group plc, patient transport services were added.

2009

Medical Services became the first independent transport provider to exceed, in a single year, one million NHS journeys throughout England and Wales.

2011

Medical Services becomes an independent company but continues with the same management and control now dedicated entirely to providing patient transport services.

Today

The company is the leading independent provider of patient transport services to the NHS & private healthcare sector. 

• Turnover in excess of £25 million;

• Contracted long-term by more than 25 NHS Trusts contracted clients and also over 60 trusts with local ad hoc on-demand services;

• Provides patient transport to a growing list of private hospitals including BMI Healthcare, and HCA International as well as clinics, laboratories and medical institutions;

• Employs 500 people trained and qualified to equivalent NHS standards;

• Operates from recently developed Centres of Excellence ambulance stations in Bow, East London, Alperton, West London, as well as Luton (Beds) and regional hubs in Warrington, Cheshire, Birmingham and Swansea, Wales;

• A fleet of 450 specially equipped ambulances, stretcher vehicles and wheelchair accessible cars;

• All ambulances are satellite tracked, linking into a state of the art secure booking and control system via the NHS N3 network; system can offer online assessment of patients’ specific transport needs;
   
• Services include specialist transport to and from hospital for walking, wheelchair, stretcher, bariatric and high dependency patients;