{"longTitle":"To introduce a Bill to make provision in respect of transport for patients attending National Health Service hospitals and health care facilities.","summary":"The purpose of the Patient Transport Bill is to ensure the provision of patient transport services is co-ordinated between primary care trusts, hospital trusts and local transport authorities.  <br><br>Through such co-ordination, the Bill aims to provide for more effective, user-focused transport services, and to prevent problems such as patients missing appointments from a lack of available transport.<br><br><strong>Key areas</strong><br><br><ul><li>The Bill would place a duty on primary care trusts, hospital trusts and local transport authorities to co-ordinate the provision of patient transport services.</li></ul><ul><li>In fulfilling this duty, primary care trusts, hospital trusts and local transport authorities would have to have regard to efficiency and economy.</li></ul><ul><li>Primary care trusts, hospital trusts and local transport authorities would have to specify in their annual reports how they had fulfilled these obligations.</li></ul>","sponsors":[{"member":{"memberId":2518,"name":"Baroness Greengross","party":"Crossbench","partyColour":"C0C0C0","house":"Lords","memberPhoto":"https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/2518/Thumbnail","memberPage":"https://members.parliament.uk/member/2518/contact","memberFrom":"Life peer"},"organisation":null,"sortOrder":1}],"promoters":[],"petitioningPeriod":null,"petitionInformation":null,"agent":null,"billId":561,"shortTitle":"Patient Transport Bill [HL]","formerShortTitle":null,"currentHouse":"Lords","originatingHouse":"Lords","lastUpdate":"2010-04-08T19:03:28","billWithdrawn":null,"isDefeated":false,"billTypeId":2,"introducedSessionId":23,"includedSessionIds":[23],"isAct":false,"currentStage":{"id":2881,"stageId":2,"sessionId":23,"description":"2nd reading","abbreviation":"2R","house":"Lords","stageSittings":[{"id":2767,"stageId":2,"billStageId":2881,"billId":561,"date":"2010-02-05T00:00:00"}],"sortOrder":2}}