Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS)

This first national minimum dataset will be collected to allow for a national and Integrated Care System (ICS) view of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services within the NHS.

Frequency

Annual

Background to the collection

A review into Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) set out a new national framework for NEPTS, with the aim of ensuring that services are consistently responsive, fair, and sustainable.

The review highlighted a lack of transparent and consistent data on activity, performance, and costs to the extent that information on NEPTS activity and performance is not available nationally, regionally, and in many cases locally.

This national minimum dataset is collected to allow for a national and Integrated Care Board (ICB) view of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services within the NHS, and to understand the provider landscape and to provide assurance on performance and spend across England.

Launch and submission dates

Reporting period name	Data period	Opening date	End date
NEPTS - March25	1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025	17 November 2025	15 December 2025

Guidance

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Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS)

The Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS) is a secure data collection system used by health and social care organisations to submit data to NHS England.

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Guidance for Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service (NEPTS) data set

This guidance supports the completion of the national data collection for Non-Emergency Patent Transport Services (NEPTS).

Data Provision Notice

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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.

Last edited: 18 November 2025 3:44 pm