Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS)

Data Provision Notice to require the submission of data from integrated care systems to enable the national monitoring of non-emergency patient transport services, to develop consistent data about activity, performance and costs.

Overview

This data collection has been stood up on behalf of NHS England following a review into Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) which highlighted a lack of transparent and consistent data on activity, performance and costs.

Data will allow for national and Integrated Care System (ICS) views of NEPTS, to provide:

a better understanding of the provider landscape
assurance on performance and spend
opportunity for the identification and sharing of good practice
targeting of improvement support
opportunity for procurement based on realistic assumptions

Scope

This Notice is served on:

Integrated Care Systems (ICB) and associated services for health and care provision and planning

Legal basis

ARTICLE

Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (Data Collection) Directions 2022

Directions given by NHS England requiring NHS Digital to operate a system for the collection and dissemination of information relating to the delivery of the Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services National Data (Data Collection).

Period

This data will be collected biannually at 6 monthly intervals. Read the supporting documentation including a submission timetable.

Read the Data Provision Notice

Data Provision Notice for Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) (Version 3.0)

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Updates

July 2024

DPN updated to reflect the introduction of vehicle level questions

August 2023

DPN updated to support the revised 2023 data collection reflected in the requirements specification which came into effect in July 2023.

Last edited: 20 January 2025 1:44 pm