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  1. Save our community transport

    The Department for Transport is planning to change the rules for minibus services. Write to your MP and urge them to stop this change. Find out more on Age UK.

  2. Transport services for older people

    Age UK works alongside other community organisations to provide door-to-door transport for older people to help them to maintain their independence.

  3. Transport concessions for disabled people

    travel on local busses or discounts on your rail journeys. Find out how you could save on your transport costs.

  4. Over 60 free bus pass, senior railcard and transport concessions

    If you're 60 or over or you have a disability, you might be eligible for public transport concessions – from a senior rail card to a free bus pass.

  5. Government announce new loneliness strategy

    GPs across England encouraged to refer lonely patients to community activities, as the government announced a new strategy on loneliness.

  6. What standards you should expect from NHS services

    Your rights and responsibilities as a patient are set out in the NHS Constitution. You have the right to complain. Find out more about your rights at Age UK.

  7. Frailty and the NHS Long Term Plan

    Term Plan on frailty outlines several important changes to the way the NHS should work to support patients and their carers. Read more at Age UK.

  8. Painful Journeys for veterans

    three key issues: Long and uncomfortable public transport journeys to and from hospital. Many older people have no option but to rely on public transport to get to their hospital appointments. For some ... changes. Patient transport services are of variable quality.  Many services run late, or journeys take much longer than they should. Not everyone is eligible for free hospital transport, with veterans

  9. Painful Journeys

    We did it! Your campaigning prompted a national review into patient transport services, and the NHS has now taken many of our crucial recommendations on board. Thank you for making it happen. Thousands ... to and from hospital. Our system for getting older people to hospital isn't fit-for-purpose... Transporting older people to and from hospital costs the NHS and the Government millions of pounds a year Yet

  10. Travelling Companions programme

    was interested in exploring the link between transport and loneliness. When older people don't have the knowledge or confidence needed to access local transport links, they then may be unable to access local ... social connections and help to reduce feelings of loneliness. Therefore, helping older people with transport and travel was the first step to improving access to the support and services that local Age UKs

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