5Criteria for patients

5 Criteria for patients

(1)  Non-emergency patient transport services may only be provided to a person under the authority of an NEPT licence, if the person –

(a) has attained the age of 2 years; and

(b) does not have medical needs that are acute or time-critical; and

(c) has been assessed in accordance with regulation 6 , as part of a clinical assessment, by a member of an approved health profession.

(2)  Nothing in this regulation prevents a person from being a patient solely on the basis that the person –

(a) is unable to be transported in a normal seated position, if the person is able to be lawfully transported by the NEPT vehicle being used to provide non-emergency patient transport services to the person; or

(b) requires a stretcher, or wheelchair, while being provided with non-emergency patient transport services; or

(c) needs assistance –

(i) to walk more than a few steps; or

(ii) to enter or leave the NEPT vehicle being used to provide non-emergency patient transport services to the person.