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Scottish Ambulance Patient Transport Service

If you are medically unfit to travel, you should contact the Scottish Ambulance Patient Transport Service.

Patients normally arrange their own transport to hospital but you may not feel fit enough to come to hospital by private or public transport.

Ambulance Service Patient Transport

Call the Patient Transport Service

  • phone 0300 123 1236

The Patient Transport Service may be able to arrange ambulance transport, if you meet the medical criteria for the ambulance service. As you will appreciate, the use of an ambulance is not intended as a substitute for public transport.

Read about support in getting to or from appointments at the Scottish Ambulance Service website.

Travel and transport

For particular hospital travel arrangements - location, directions and parking - see information for each hospital.

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Last updated: 2 September 2024

Next review date: 12 February 2025