Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member, Peter Black has questioned why the Welsh Ambulance Services Trust has spent more than £3.4m on taxis in the past five years, blowing its own budget by almost £1m.
The trust paid out more than £517,507 on cabs in the last financial year alone to ferry non-emergency patients to their hospital appointments. Last year’s taxi bill – £1,417 a day on average – was just £120,000 less than it spent buying 27 new ambulances and patient transport vehicles.
Peter Black called for an urgent review of spending on taxis fares:
“I am obviously concerned that the Welsh Ambulance Service are not getting value for money out of their vehicles. They are using a very expensive form of transport, when if they invested in their own vehicles they would get better value for money.”
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