Transport for Health

Transport for Health provides a range of transport and travel assistance to people who cannot use or have difficulty using public and/or private transport or who are disadvantaged by distance.

Transport for Health integrates all non-emergency health related transport assistance programs into a single multifaceted transport assistance program in each Area Health Service.

Transport for Health includes the Isolated Patients Travel and Accommodation Assistance Scheme (IPTAAS), the Statewide Infant Screening-Hearing (SWISH) Travel program, the Health Related Transport Program, inter-facility transport schemes and the former Transport for Health program.

The criteria for access to Transport for Health are:

• People who need to access specialist medical or oral surgical treatment not available locally and who live more then 100km from the nearest specialist are eligible to access Transport for Health-IPTAAS.
• The SWISH Travel program entitles babies and a parent, who live more than 100 km one way from one of the three SWISH assessment facilities, to be reimbursed for travel if the baby has been identified for follow-up diagnostic audiology services following screening for hearing under the SWISH program.
• Eligibility for other Transport for Health Services is based on a patient’s inability to reasonably gain access to local health services by either public or private transport, or their need to be transported between hospital facilities.