# The Kings Fund to deliver project support to Q-Volunteering grantees

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT
- Contract winner: The kings fund
- Award value: £13,356
- Tender value: £13,356
- Award date: 28 February 2018
- Published: 9 April 2018
- Contract start: 1 March 2018
- Contract end: 31 May 2018
- Stage: awarded
- Notice ID: 2f96c516-47a5-4406-bcda-87bf8818e332-209837
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-d19ec80e-11d4-4bc4-ac3e-5769d507858d

## Description

The ambulance sector of the NHS in England has a long history of working with volunteers\. Traditionally, they have almost exclusively been involved in non-urgent patient transport \(e\.g\. hospital car service, patient escorts\) and as community first responders\. However, emerging findings from the Q-Volunteering programme are increasing interest in working with volunteers in other ways\. In particular, there is interest in using them as a peer resource to increase patients' ability for self-care \(thereby reducing repeat calls and demand for ambulance conveyance\), and working with volunteers in a more flexible range of ways, highly dependent on local context and priorities of the local health and care system, rather than only the traditional relatively narrow range of involvement\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2f96c516-47a5-4406-bcda-87bf8818e332-209837)