Property consultancy and Thames Tap partner Vail Williams has secured seven Thames Valley properties, totalling 78,000 sq ft, for an expanding patient transport specialist.

Healthcare logistics provider EMED Group, one of the largest NHS health and care partners, has a 10-year contract from the NHS to provide non-emergency transport of patients across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Surrey Heath & Farnham and North East Hampshire.

Vail Williams partner Geoff Fallon led the firm’s acquisition team, working with EMED Group partners Maria Hoadley and Nicola Mottershaw and surveyor Clark Tersol.

The properties secured are:

  • Unit 12 Faraday Road, Bicester Road Industrial Estate, Aylesbury (7,153 sq ft).
  • Unit 6 Hawley Lane Trade Centre, Farnborough (7,988 sq ft).
  • Fleetwood House, Albion Close, Slough (13,707 sq ft).
  • 37 Nuffield Way, Nuffield Centrum, Abingdon (7,141 sq ft).
  • Loveock Road, Reading (8,759 sq ft).
  • Cadogarn House, Wheatley, Oxford (20,768 sq ft).
  • Unit 3 MXL Centre Lombard Way Banbury (12,789 sq ft)

Geoff said: “EMED Group, a valued client, is now the largest provider of non-emergency patient transport services in the UK, such as for outpatient appointments, discharges, and renal dialysis.

“Due to winning the contract for NHS BOB (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire) and NHS Frimley, EMED needed suitable and conveniently located premises to cover this comprehensively.

“We were tasked with locating and securing premises enabling EMED to house their ambulances and other vehicles at strategic locations, to enable them to reach patients in optimum time.

“Such a large and complex project naturally threw up snags and obstacles, but we worked closely with our client and legal teams to overcome these and deliver a successful outcome within a challenging timeframe.

“I am gratified that our multi-disciplinary team was able to call on decades of experience, detailed local knowledge and great contacts to ensure EMED Group can care for patients in the best possible and most efficient manner.”

Darren Henderson, head of procurement and contracts for EMED Group, said: “We tasked Vail Williams with sourcing and securing suitable, accessible, flexible and cost-effective premises to service our new patient transport contract across a swathe of the central south region.

“The hard yards put in by Geoff and the team have enabled us to deliver improvements to the patient transport system for NHS BOB and NHS Frimley and offer the best possible service for patients in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West and Frimley.”

Earlier this year Vail Williams secured four major properties totalling 68,000 sq ft in Sussex when EMED Group won a 10-year contract from the NHS in the county.

Sarah Swan at Irwin Mitchell acted for EMED.

Image: The 7,988 sq ft Unit 6 Hawley Lane Trade Centre in Farnborough.

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