Total Transport was a good idea. It’s just a pity the NHS didn’t want to play ball

John Atkins is a principal consultant at TAS Partnership Ltd where he has recently been engaged with a number of Total Transport projects. He was the founding manager of one of Lancashire’s leading community transport operations.

The DfT recently produced an end-of-programme review of its Total Transport initiative, which aimed to pool resources, vehicles and approaches to transport on a cross-sector basis, from health to social care and education.

The programme provided £8m to 36 local authorities selected from 42 bids, with £220,000 per project on average. Each bidder was able to approach the challenge in a localised way but all involved some level of cross-agency collaboration. Central to many of the...

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