Criteria for patients
5 Criteria for patients
Non-emergency patient transport services may only be provided to a person under the authority of an NEPT licence, if the person – has attained the age of 2 years; and does not have medical needs that are acute or time-critical; and has been assessed in accordance with regulation 6, as part of a clinical assessment, by a member of an approved health profession.
Nothing in this regulation prevents a person from being a patient solely on the basis that the person – is unable to be transported in a normal seated position, if the person is able to be lawfully transported by the NEPT vehicle being used to provide non-emergency patient transport services to the person; or requires a stretcher, or wheelchair, while being provided with non-emergency patient transport services; or needs assistance – to walk more than a few steps; or to enter or leave the NEPT vehicle being used to provide non-emergency patient transport services to the person.
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