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The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: NHS Ambulance Services and the NHS Patient Transport Service) Regulations 2023

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6 Minimum level of service: Inter-Facility Transfer services: England

(1) The level of service for the purpose of enabling work notices to be given under section 234C of the 1992 Act in relation to strikes as respects the NHS (England) ambulance services which are IFT services, is as follows. (2) On each day of the strike— (a) IFT services requests are answered and triaged as they would be if the strike were not taking place on that day; (b) IFT services are organised and provided for each of those requests which is triaged as, or escalated after initial triage to, being— (i) a request about a patient with a life-threatening condition or illness, or (ii) a request about a patient for whom there is no reasonable clinical alternative to the provision of IFT services, as they would be if the strike were not taking place on that day. (3) In this regulation— “IFT services request” means a request for IFT services made by or on behalf of clinical staff at a relevant healthcare facility in respect of a patient whose medical or nursing care needs have increased; “IFT services” means either or both of the following services— clinical assistance with a patient; the transfer of a patient from a relevant healthcare facility to another healthcare facility; “relevant healthcare facility” means any healthcare facility which is a facility within the meaning given in Part 1 of the National Framework for inter-facility transfers (version 2, 22 March 2021), or determined to be suitable to use the inter-facility transfer process as provided for in that Part.

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6 Minimum level of service: Inter-Facility Transfer services: England

(1) The level of service for the purpose of enabling work notices to be given under section 234C of the 1992 Act in relation to strikes as respects the NHS (England) ambulance services which are IFT services, is as follows. (2) On each day of the strike— (a) IFT services requests are answered and triaged as they would be if the strike were not taking place on that day; (b) IFT services are organised and provided for each of those requests which is triaged as, or escalated after initial triage to, being— (i) a request about a patient with a life-threatening condition or illness, or (ii) a request about a patient for whom there is no reasonable clinical alternative to the provision of IFT services, as they would be if the strike were not taking place on that day. (3) In this regulation— “IFT services request” means a request for IFT services made by or on behalf of clinical staff at a relevant healthcare facility in respect of a patient whose medical or nursing care needs have increased; “IFT services” means either or both of the following services— clinical assistance with a patient; the transfer of a patient from a relevant healthcare facility to another healthcare facility; “relevant healthcare facility” means any healthcare facility which is a facility within the meaning given in Part 1 of the National Framework for inter-facility transfers (version 2, 22 March 2021), or determined to be suitable to use the inter-facility transfer process as provided for in that Part.

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