An introduction to EMS Healthcare
From discovery... Clinical
Research
Partnering with industry, academia, and the NHS to strengthen the delivery of research studies. By providing accessible trial sites to help improve equity, diversity, and inclusion within the participating population.
Industry
to delivery
Clinical Capacity
Supporting clinical services to deliver routine patient care by alleviating capacity challenges in primary and secondary care. Expanding the reach of outpatient services into the heart of communities, we can enable the delivery of care closer to the homes of patients.
Trusts ICBs Providers
Our Business Areas
Providing accessible study sites and clinical research services in key community locations
Working together to alleviate capacity challenges across primary and secondary care
Agile capacity redressing health inequalities in the heart of communities
We support services with specialised units...
We’re proud to have supported over 95 NHS Trusts and Health Boards, private providers and clinical research sponsors
Immunisations & Screening
Health Checks
ARI Hubs
Clinical Research
Mental Health Support
Staffed Phlebotomy
Endoscopy & Decontamination
Community Diagnostic Centres
Cancer Diagnostic Services
Women’s Health
Sexual Health
Macular Clinics
Urgent Treatment Centres
Infusion Clinics
Awareness Campaigns
The Benefits of Mobile Units in the Community
Addressing Health Inequalities:
EMS Healthcare enhances accessibility by bringing critical healthcare services to underserved or remote communities, helping to reduce health inequalities by ensuring that vulnerable populations can access the care they need, regardless of location or socioeconomic status.
Increasing Clinical Capacity in Communities:
EMS Healthcare expands clinical capacity by deploying mobile medical units to local communities, alleviating pressure on traditional healthcare facilities and enabling faster access to diagnostics, treatments, and specialist care where it’s needed most.
Delivering Care Closer to Home:
By providing mobile clinical units, EMS Healthcare supports the shift towards community-based care, reducing the burden on central hospitals and allowing patients to receive high-quality treatments closer to their homes, improving patient convenience and experience.
Bringing Health Services into Communities
CWP’s Living Well Buses
Addressing Health Inequalities
Built on the principles of listening to underserved communities and bringing the right services to them, the three NHS Living Well Buses address inequalities across the region. Within the first year:
Locala’s ‘Clinic in a Van’
Bridging the Gap
Supporting underserved communities, the ‘clinic in a van’ improves access to a range of healthcare services including vaccinations, wound care, sexual health and GP services. Since July 2023, it has conducted:
GM Cancer Alliance
#ThisVanCan
Creating Awareness
With 1 in 4 black men diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, the #ThisVanCan campaign was aimed at black men and people with a prostate aged over 45 who are at greater risk of getting prostate cancer.
Delivering Research in Communities
20+
Projects
Providing various sponsors including the NIHR with units that are taken into communities to engage with members of the public.
Over 19,000 health screening tests were delivered
Over 1,000 clinical interventions and health promotion activities
Over 630 men had a PSA test, with 50 requiring further investigation
Increasing awareness and participation in health and clinical research
Supporting NHS Trusts and Health Boards
Convenient Treatments
Reducing the Cancer Backlog
The mobile treatment suite offers convenient chemotherapy appointments in community settings. Patients can receive the care they need, closer to home.
92% of patients found the location better than the hospital clinic
Increasing Clinical Capacity Maintain Capacity During Refurbishment
Urgent Care Capacity
250 Extra Appointments Per Week Enabling Continuous Patient Care Deployed in 1 Week
Providing a one-stop assessment and treatment service in supermarket car parks, the mobile macular unit offers a convenient alternative to the acute setting for patients.
St George’s University Hospital were able to continue vital renal dialysis appointments, ensuring uninterrupted service throughout an uplanned construction period.
95% of patients rate their mobile unit experience as excellent
8 renal station solution deployed within 6 weeks
EMS Healthcare delivered a bespoke solution within one week, enabling up to 12 ambulance crews to get back on the road to answer more category 1 and 2 calls.
A clinical space for patients to safely wait before being moved to the ED
High Capacity Solutions
Flexible Endoscope Reprocessing
This mobile decontamination unit in North Manchester General Hospital in partnership with Wassenburg Medical is helping to increase reprocessing capacity by up to 195 scopes over 12 hours each day.
The unit operates a seven-day service with the aim of clearing the overdue waiting list for planned and surveillance procedures. Thanks to NHS England funding, up to 750 patients a month are expected to be screened on a range of specialities.
EMS were the proud logistical and operational partner on the NHS-Galleri trial. The all-mobile trial facilitated up to 5,000 study visits per week. The sites range from 2-8 appointment bays. With a capacity of +11,000 appointments per week, the sites are positioned in underserved locations across England.
Enabling smooth delivery of services for patients
Delivered by EMS Healthcare and Medinet in just 5 weeks.
~143,000 participants recruited in 10 months
Helping to reach 5 million research participants
The Most Versatile Range of Mobile Units
From agile and highly-flexible Outreach units, to our largest, up-to-6-unit solutions, we are regarded as market leaders when it comes to the ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ approach needed to serve the unique and diverse challenges faced by our customers and partners.
Our extensive range is augmented by our in-house design team, bringing a level of bespoke detail and design that supports your workflows and programme objectives.
Certificates can be provided on request or as part of a supplier/vendor assessment process.
