University College London Hospital building seen from Beaumont Place, London. — Photo: Stephen McKay / University College London Hospital, CC BY-SA 2.0

Patient Transport Contracts, Gently Used, £189,000 Lot

Rides for NHS patients, delivered with a side of payments. Seller: one hospital Transport Manager.

Sold2021–2022Local

about £73,000≈ €87.1KAs stated in the source: It was alleged that, between September 2021 and May 2022, […] made payments of £73,000 to […]

Already sold, in 2021–2022. Nothing on Lobay is for sale.

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Seller

Role: Transport Manager at a London NHS hospital trust (UCLH)
Institution: University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Country: United Kingdom

Item specifics

Condition	Guilty plea, sentenced 20 Oct 2025. Appeal status not fully checked.
Location	UCLH, London, England
Seller	Transport Manager at UCLH (name withheld)
Winning bidder	A patient transport company (not named; its director pleaded guilty)
Category	Health: NHS patient transport
Sold	September 2021 to May 2022
Returns	No returns. 16-month prison sentence, suspended for 2 years (2025)

Description

What the bribe bought

The payments helped secure £189,000 worth of NHS contracts for patient transport services for UCLH. That is contract value, not profit.

Return on bribe: Every £1 of bribes bought contracts worth about £2.59.Rough figure: the bribe is stated as “approximately”, the gain as “exact”.

What happened

A patient transport company director paid a Transport Manager at a London NHS hospital trust, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). The NHS Counter Fraud Authority says it was alleged that payments of £73,000 were made between September 2021 and May 2022. The director pleaded guilty to bribery. On 20 October 2025, Wood Green Crown Court gave a 16-month prison sentence, suspended for 2 years.