Health Transport Services
Warwickshire County Council – Transport, Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick District, and Rugby Borough
Voluntary Action – Stratford-on-Avon. Transports people who are without their own transport to medical appointments at hospitals, doctors’ surgeries, dentists’ surgeries and day centers across Stratford, Warwick and Rugby areas.
Address: VASA, DSA House, Unit 17 The Courtyard, Timothy’s Bridge Road, Stratford upon Avon, CV37 9PN
Telephone: 01789 262889
Email: transport@vasa.org.uk
Booking line opening hours: Monday – Friday, 9.30am to 3.30pm
West Midlands Ambulance Service – Non Emergency Patient Transport
If a patient is registered with a GP in Coventry and Warwickshire and is eligible for PTS, this service will provide transport to hospitals and treatment centres locally, throughout the West Midlands and the rest of the country. This includes regular journeys for dialysis for example, and specialist centres elsewhere in the UK.
Main sites include:
- University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire
- St Cross Hospital, Rugby
- George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton
- Warwick Hospital
- Stratford Hospital
- Ellen Badger Hospital, Shipston-on-Stour
- Leamington Spa Hospital (CERU)
- Myton Hospice sites
- plus other sites including dialysis units
Occasionally, patients need to travel outside the local area. WMAS provide transport for many parts of the West Midlands including:
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
- Heartlands Hospital
- Good Hope Hospital
- Solihull Hospital
- Walsall Manor
- Worcester Royal Infirmary
- Alexandra Hospital, Redditch
- Kidderminster Hospital
- New Cross, Wolverhampton
- Russell’s Hall, Dudley
- plus some treatment centres for mental ill-health in the Black Country
How to book:
Telephone 01926 310 312 and select ‘option 1’
IndieGo PLUS – Hatton and West Warwick
You book your ride through the mobile app or dedicated call centre. You request your pick-up and drop-off points when making your booking, but a short walk may be required to complete most trips. IndieGo PLUS is a rideshare service, this means you will probably share your ride with other customers who are going in the same direction as you.
Passengers book and pay directly from their smartphone through the IndieGo PLUS mobile app and, using the latest technology, track the bus in real-time to the meeting point of choice.
Prices range from just £3 for a single trip and discounts for children. Rides can be booked two weeks in advance up until an hour before travel through the app or by telephone. Passengers booking and paying for journeys through the call centre will be advised of the expected vehicle arrival time.
Service hours
IndieGo PLUS will operate from 6am to 7.30pm Monday to Saturday (no service on most bank holidays). Rides can be booked on the IndieGo PLUS app at any time. Telephone lines are open from 8.30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays).
Or alternatively you can download the free app
| Children under five | Free |
| All other passengers single fare | £3 |
