Response Ambulance Service

Ratings

• Overall

  Good

• Safe

  Good

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Good

Our view of the service

Date of assessment 22 July 2026. Response Ambulance Service (RAS), based in Leeds, is a patient transport service which transports adults aged 18 and above between hospital and home. It undertakes both private and NHS contracted transport. For the year July 2025 to June 2026, it recorded 13,175 non-emergency patient journeys. 

We carried out an unannounced assessment of the patient transport service which included 32 quality statements under safe, effective, caring, responsive, and well led key questions. Patient transport services has an overall rating of good.

Response Ambulance Service registered with CQC on 17 September 2021. This is the first assessment for this service.