Property consultancy Vail Williams has secured seven properties in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Frimley in Surrey totalling 78,000 sq ft, for an expanding patient transport specialist.
Healthcare logistics provider EMED Group won a 10-year contract from the NHS to provide non-emergency transportation of patients across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Surrey Heath & Farnham and North East Hampshire.
EMED Group is one of the largest health and care partners to the NHS with more than 2,800 colleagues across over 50 bases UK-wide.
Vail Williams partner Geoff Fallon led the firm’s acquisitional team working with EMED Group, which also included partners Maria Hoadley and Nicola Mottershaw and surveyor Clark Tersol.
Building consultancy support came from Matthew Beech, Keith Shaw, Holly Vos, Chris Harrison, Christopher Bailey and Nicki Rought, with business rates under the care of associate Derek Moore.
Sarah Swan at Irwin Mitchell acted for EMED.
The firm has been supporting long-established client EMED with strategic property needs to allow them to hit the ground running with their service delivery, including comprehensive occupier advisory advice, encompassing agency, building consultancy, planning and business rates.
Vail Williams successfully negotiated deals for these properties:
Unit 12 Faraday Road, Bicester Road Industrial Estate, Aylesbury – 7,153 sq ft (664.51 sq m). Bicester Road Industrial Estate forms part of the established Rabans Lane industrial area just off the A41 Bicester Road and approximately a mile to the north-west of Aylesbury town centre.
Unit 6 Hawley Lane Trade Centre, Farnborough – 7,988 sq ft (742 sq m). The property comprises a terrace of units providing industrial accommodation with offices on the first floor. Frimley Railway Station is within close proximity with Junction 4 of the M3 adjacent to the property.
Fleetwood House, Albion Close, Slough – 13,707 sq ft (1,273.4 sq m). The property is located in the centre of Slough, in an established industrial location, close to the main railway station serving both London Paddington and the West Country, as well as the Elizabeth Line and with the M4 and M40 easily accessible.
37 Nuffield Way, Nuffield Centrum, Abingdon – 7,141 sq ft (663 sq m). Nuffield Centrum is Abingdon’s major industrial and warehouse location set within some 11.5 acres and totalling approximately 265,000 sq ft of warehouse and production space distributed in three main clusters.
Lovelock Road, Reading – 8,759 sq ft (814 sq m). Lovelock Road is a well-established commercial and semi-industrial area within easy reach of Reading town centre. The location also benefits from excellent access to the A33 and A4, providing convenient connections to the M4 motorway.
Cadogan House, Wheatley, Oxford – 20,768 sq ft (1,929 sq m) is a distribution warehouse within a secure fenced environment, located half-a-mile from the A40 and two miles from Junction 8 of the M40.
Unit 3 MXL Centre Lombard Way Banbury – 12,789 sq ft (1,118 sq m). Banbury is undergoing significant residential and commercial growth and Unit 3 is situated on the MXL Centre on Lombard Way within approximately one mile of Junction 11 of the M40. 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 at 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.”
EMED Group (ERS Transition Limited) was awarded a 10-year contract to provide non-emergency patient transport services (NEPTS) across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West, and Frimley Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) which officially commenced on April 1, 2025.
The service covers patients registered with a GP in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire West (including Wokingham, Reading, Slough, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, and Bracknell Forest), and the Frimley area (including Surrey Heath, Farnham, and North East Hampshire).
The services were previously run by the South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS). Affected SCAS staff were transferred to EMED Group under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE).
The contract, for an initial five-year period with an option to extend for a further five years, is to provide transport services for eligible patients who are unable to use private or public transport due to their medical condition.
EMED Group was formed in 2023 following the merger of ERS Medical and E-zec Medical Transport Services. As well as patient transport services, it also provides secure mental health services, community and educational transport, as well as medical courier services.
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.
Vail Williams’ full-service property advice includes commercial agency, investment and development advice, building consultancy, property valuation, planning, lease advisory, property asset management, business rates and occupier consultancy.
