🚁 Emergency Aeromedical Transport Services (Intrastate and Interstate) for CAHS

CAHS awarded a $2.5M contract to Royal Flying Doctor Service for critical intrastate/interstate aeromedical transport services.

The Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) requires the provision of a suitable aeromedical Intra/Interstate hospital patient transfer service for CAHS patients, a service which is critical and integral to their clinical safety. Through this Contratc, CAHS is seeking to appoint service provider/s to deliver the requirements under three (3) service categories comprising of: a) Paediatric Critical Care (PCC): the statewide retrieval service provided to unstable and critically ill paediatric patients that are based at Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH); b) Newborn Emergency Transport Service (NETS) WA: NETS WA is a statewide retrieval service that transfers newborns and infants requiring urgent or specialised care at PCH or King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEMH); and c) General Transfer Service: non-urgent intra/inter-state transfers that do not fall under the PCC or NETS WA service category, or the Patient Assisted Travel Scheme (PATS).

The Child and Adolescent Health Service awarded a contract valued at an estimated $2,500,000 via Open Advertisement to the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (Western Operations).