Community Transport

Community Transport... providing door-to-door transport

Community Transport Program

What Transport Services Do We Offer?

We offer a number of transport services in and around Singleton and Maitland local gorvernment areas, including:

The Town Bus Service

Providing door-to-door transport around the Singleton Town.  It operates week days and Saturday mornings.

This service transports people around Singleton to facilitate their shopping and banking, to attend doctors or other medical appointments, to head to a local club or just to visit a friend. It operates week days and Saturday mornings.

BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL

To use this service, you must book at least 24 hours in advance. We are unable to provide this service if you ring up on the day - unless it is required for you to attend an urgent medical visit. Bookings are made by calling our office on Tel (02) 6571 2300.

REMEMBER! Please allow at least 24 hours notice when booking this service so we can be of assistance to you.

Outlying areas

Each fortnight, our buses service the outlying areas of Singleton and bring our rural clients into town for shopping and to attend medical appointments. We currently service the Branxton, Glendonbrook, Glendon, Warkworth and Jerry's Plains, Bulga, Broke, Milbrodale and Camberwell communities.

Newcastle Trip

Once a month, our buses go to Newcastle via Maitland, to take clients shopping, to medical specialists, or just to visit friends and family there. This service operates on the fourth Monday of each month. This service is door-to-door.

Medical Drive Service

We also operate a volunteer medical drive service. This service uses unpaid volunteer drivers from both the Singleton and Maitland communities. They take our clients to specialist medical appointments out of town. Our volunteer drivers can go to Maitland, Kurri, Cessnock, Muswellbrook Newcastle and Sydney.

People wishing to use this service are asked to make their specialist appointments between the hours of 11.00am and 1.00pm.

Fourteen days notice is required to arrange a volunteer drive. It is never too early to book. 

REMEMBER TO BOOK EARLY! 
ALL BOOKINGS are to be made by contacting our office on
Tel (02) 6571 2300. (Please do not give bookings to the drivers.)


Links to :- Transport for NSW

Community Transport Organisation -CTO

How to obtain these - Commonwealth Home Support Programme - services

How to obtain these services

Call MY AGED CARE on 1800 200 422 :

You will be asked questions over the phone to help work out your needs and care arrangements – this takes at least ten minutes.

You will need your Medicare card.

If you would like someone to call My Aged Care for you, you will need to give them your consent.

If you’re calling for someone else, they will need to give their consent.

Have a face to face assessment

My Aged Care may arrange for a trained assessor to come to your home. With your consent they will assess your care needs and eligibility for services and work with you to develop a support plan which addresses your needs, goals and preferences.

 

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Would you like more information or to book this services?
Please call - 02 6571 2300, or click on the button below for email contact.

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