Fleet Risk Podasts

15 October 2021

A series of Podcasts are now available to show how businesses manage road risk.

One - NHS Hospital transport: a gigantic challenge features David Malone who is the Transport and Travel Advisor for The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. His responsibilities include setting and implementing the strategic direction for all hospital managed transport as well as all delivery transport movements to and from site.

This includes not just fleet vehicles, vans, pool cars and grey fleet but also car parking, park and ride, passenger transport services, taxis and couriers. David also chairs two Best Practice Groups for the NHS National Performance Advisory Group – one for Transport and Logistics, and the second for car parking, sustainable transport and active travel policy.

In this podcast David explains how he manages such a wide range of transport activities including a grey fleet of almost five thousand and the challenges of driver communication with such a large workforce. We discuss the challenges around ensuring outsourced transport providers meet their legal obligations to manage road risk, and we look at how the Trust’s transport activities will need to develop in the future to meet their zero-carbon ambitions.