Transport > Transport Services

Transport services for elderly people with mobility problems are invaluable, because they help them to remain independent and avoid isolation. There are many community transport services provided by the voluntary sector throughout the country which offer transport arrangements such as regular transport to supermarkets or shopping centres. Dial-a-Ride is wheelchair accessible assisted transport for people who are unable to use public transport. Volunteer car drivers can assist older people too, particularly those living in rural areas, and may help by providing transport for medical appointments. Shopmobility schemes generally offer loan of wheelchairs or scooters, and most require registration. Free bus travel throughout England is available to older people, and the senior railcard provides discounts for rail travel. The UK Blue Badge scheme allows people with severe mobility problems to park close to where they need to go. Hospitals may help with non-emergency patient transport. Elderly people in receipt of Direct Payments could use this to fund the cost of necessary transport.

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Transport > Transport Services services in England

Bedfordshire (18)
Bedford (9) Luton (4) Mid Bedfordshire (11) South Bedfordshire (8)

Berkshire (14)
Bracknell Forest (4) Reading (6) Slough (4) West Berkshire (14) Windsor and Maidenhead (4) Wokingham (4)

Buckinghamshire (26)
Aylesbury Vale (13) Chiltern (12) Milton Keynes (8) South Bucks (8) Wycombe (12)

Cambridgeshire (17)
Cambridge (10) East Cambridgeshire (7) Fenland (6) Huntingdonshire (8) Peterborough (5) South Cambridgeshire (6)

Channel Islands (4)
Guernsey (4) Jersey (4)

Cheshire (20)
Chester (13) Congleton (8) Crewe and Nantwich (8) Ellesmere Port and Neston (10) Halton (10) Macclesfield (8) Vale Royal (9) Warrington (5)

Cornwall (19)
Caradon (13) Carrick (13) Isles of Scilly (10) Kerrier (12) North Cornwall (13) Penwith (13) Restormel (13)

Cumbria (15)
Allerdale (11) Barrow-in-Furness (8) Carlisle (8) Copeland (12) Eden (8) South Lakeland (9)

Derbyshire (12)
Amber Valley (9) Bolsover (9) Chesterfield (9) Derby (8) Derbyshire Dales (12) Erewash (9) High Peak (11) North East Derbyshire (9) South Derbyshire (9)

Devon (28)
East Devon (14) Exeter (10) Mid Devon (12) North Devon (15) Plymouth (9) South Hams (8) Teignbridge (9) Torbay (8) Torridge (9) West Devon (9)

Dorset (32)
Bournemouth (13) Christchurch (13) East Dorset (16) North Dorset (11) Poole (12) Purbeck (7) West Dorset (11) Weymouth & Portland (8)

Durham (14)
Chester-le-Street (5) Darlington (4) Derwentside (4) Durham (5) Easington (6) Hartlepool (4) Sedgefield (4) Stockton-on-Tees (5) Teesdale (7) Wear Valley (8)

East Riding of Yorkshire (13)
East Riding of Yorkshire (12) Kingston upon Hull (7)

East Sussex (24)
Brighton & Hove (10) Eastbourne (12) Hastings (14) Lewes (12) Rother (19) Wealden (14)

Essex (24)
Basildon (8) Braintree (12) Brentwood (9) Castle point (9) Chelmsford (10) Colchester (7) Epping Forest (7) Harlow (7) Maldon (8) Rochford (9) Southend-on-Sea (7) Tendring (9) Thurrock (7) Uttlesford (11)

Gloucestershire (21)
Cheltenham (7) Cotswold (12) Forest of Dean (8) Gloucester (8) South Gloucestershire (11) Stroud (8) Tewkesbury (8)

Greater London (36)
Barking & Dagenham (8) Barnet (8) Bexley (8) Brent (8) Bromley (8) Camden (7) City of London (7) Croydon (8) Ealing (9) Enfield (7) Greenwich (7) Hackney (8) Hammersmith & Fulham (8) Haringey (7) Harrow (9) Havering (8) Hillingdon (10) Hounslow (8) Islington (9) Kensington and Chelsea (9) Kingston upon Thames (7) Lambeth (8) Lewisham (7) Merton (10) Newham (9) Redbridge (8) Richmond upon Thames (9) Southwark (10) Sutton (10) Tower Hamlets (9) Waltham Forest (9) Wandsworth (9) Westminster (7)

Greater Manchester (13)
Bolton (7) Bury (6) Manchester (7) Oldham (6) Rochdale (7) Salford (6) Stockport (9) Tameside (7) Trafford (6) Wigan (6)

Hampshire (23)
Basingstoke and Deane (9) East Hampshire (13) Eastleigh (7) Fareham (7) Gosport (6) Hart (6) Havant (6) New Forest (8) Portsmouth (6) Rushmoor (6) Southampton (10) Test Valley (7) Winchester (6)

Herefordshire (8)
Herefordshire (6)

Hertfordshire (15)
Broxbourne (6) Dacorum (9) East Hertfordshire (9) Hertsmere (9) North Hertfordshire (8) St Albans (8) Stevenage (7) Three Rivers (8) Watford (9) Welwyn Hatfield (6)

Isle of Man (5)
Isle of Man (5)

Isle of Wight (9)
Isle of Wight (9)

Kent (19)
Ashford (12) Canterbury (10) Dartford (11) Dover (11) Gravesham (11) Maidstone (13) Medway (10) Sevenoaks (12) Shepway (11) Swale (10) Thanet (11) Tonbridge & Malling (13) Tunbridge Wells (13)

Lancashire (12)
Blackburn with Darwen (8) Blackpool (6) Burnley (6) Chorley (7) Fylde (6) Hyndburn (6) Lancaster (7) Pendle (6) Preston (7) Ribble Valley (6) Rossendale (6) South Ribble (7) West Lancashire (7) Wyre (6)

Leicestershire (5)
Blaby (5) Charnwood (5) Harborough (5) Hinckley & Bosworth (5) Leicester (4) Melton (5) North West Leicestershire (5) Oadby & Wigston (5) Rutland (4)

Lincolnshire (6)
Boston (6) East Lindsey (6) Lincoln (5) North East Lincolnshire (6) North Kesteven (6) North Lincolnshire (6) South Holland (6) South Kesteven (6) West Lindsey (6)

Merseyside (6)
Knowsley (5) Liverpool (5) Sefton (5) St Helens (5) Wirral (6)

Norfolk (4)
Breckland (4) Broadland (4) Great Yarmouth (4) Kings Lynn and West Norfolk (4) North Norfolk (4) Norwich (4) South Norfolk (4)

North Yorkshire (17)
Craven (7) Hambleton (9) Harrogate (6) Middlesbrough (4) Redcar & Cleveland (4) Richmondshire (6) Ryedale (5) Scarborough (6) Selby (7) York (5)

Northamptonshire (7)
Corby (4) Daventry (5) East Northamptonshire (5) Kettering (5) Northampton (4) South Northamptonshire (4) Wellingborough (5)

Northumberland (6)
Alnwick (6) Berwick-upon-Tweed (6) Blyth Valley (4) Castle Morpeth (4) Tynedale (4) Wansbeck (4)

Nottinghamshire (16)
Ashfield (6) Bassetlaw (8) Broxtowe (6) Gedling (5) Mansfield (5) Newark and Sherwood (6) Nottingham (9) Rushcliffe (6)

Oxfordshire (10)
Cherwell (6) Oxford (6) South Oxfordshire (6) Vale of White Horse (9) West Oxfordshire (8)

Shropshire (11)
Bridgnorth (7) North Shropshire (9) Oswestry (8) Shrewsbury and Atcham (7) South Shropshire (10) Telford & Wrekin (8)

Somerset (8)
Bath & North East Somerset (4) Bristol (7) Mendip (4) North Somerset (5) Sedgemoor (4) South Somerset (4) Taunton Deane (4) West Somerset (4)

South Yorkshire (7)
Barnsley (5) Doncaster (6) Rotherham (5) Sheffield (6)

Staffordshire (10)
Cannock Chase (6) East Staffordshire (8) Lichfield (7) Newcastle-under-Lyme (8) South Staffordshire (6) Stafford (9) Staffordshire Moorlands (8) Stoke-on-Trent (6) Tamworth (6)

Suffolk (6)
Babergh (5) Forest Heath (5) Ipswich (6) Mid Suffolk (6) St Edmundsbury (6) Suffolk Coastal (5) Waveney (5)

Surrey (14)
Elmbridge (9) Epsom and Ewell (9) Guildford (9) Mole Valley (10) Reigate & Banstead (12) Runnymede (9) Spelthorne (9) Surrey Heath (9) Tandridge (11) Waverley (9) Woking (10)

Tyne and Wear (7)
Gateshead (5) Newcastle upon Tyne (6) North Tyneside (5) South Tyneside (5) Sunderland (6)

Warwickshire (9)
North Warwickshire (6) Nuneaton & Bedworth (6) Rugby (6) Stratford-on-Avon (8) Warwick (8)

West Midlands (17)
Birmingham (9) Coventry (9) Dudley (10) Sandwell (9) Solihull (9) Walsall (8) Wolverhampton (7)

West Sussex (11)
Adur (6) Arun (5) Chichester (5) Crawley (6) Horsham (7) Mid Sussex (10) Worthing (5)

West Yorkshire (8)
Bradford (7) Calderdale (4) Kirklees (4) Leeds (5) Wakefield (4)

Wiltshire (9)
Kennet (5) North Wiltshire (8) Salisbury (5) Swindon (7) West Wiltshire (5)

Worcestershire (12)
Bromsgrove (7) Malvern Hills (7) Redditch (7) Worcester (7) Wychavon (6) Wyre Forest (8)

Transport > Transport Services services in Scotland

Aberdeen (6) Aberdeenshire (15) Angus (6) Argyll & Bute (5) Clackmannanshire (5) Dumfries & Galloway (5) Dundee (5) East Ayrshire (5) East Dunbartonshire (5) East Lothian (6) East Renfrewshire (5) Edinburgh (9) Eilean Siar / Western Isles (5) Falkirk (6) Fife (5) Glasgow (5) Highland (5) Inverclyde (5) Midlothian (7) Moray (6) North Ayrshire (5) North Lanarkshire (5) Orkney Islands (5) Perth & Kinross (5) Renfrewshire (5) Scottish Borders (5) Shetland Islands (5) South Ayrshire (5) South Lanarkshire (5) Stirling (5) West Dunbartonshire (5) West Lothian (6)

Transport > Transport Services services in Wales

Anglesey (4) Blaenau Gwent (4) Bridgend (4) Caerphilly (4) Cardiff (5) Carmarthenshire (4) Ceredigion (4) Conwy (4) Denbighshire (5) Flintshire (5) Gwynedd (4) Merthyr Tydfil (4) Monmouthshire (4) Neath Port Talbot (4) Newport (4) Pembrokeshire (4) Powys (4) Rhondda Cynon Taff (4) Swansea (4) Torfaen (4) Vale of Glamorgan (5) Wrexham (5)

Transport > Transport Services services in Northern Ireland

Antrim (1) Armagh (1) Belfast (1) Down (1) Fermanagh (1) Londonderry (1) Tyrone (1)