[Taxicabs for patient transport to national hospitals]

The use of taxis to transport patients to and from the Norwegian Radium Hospital has been studied. 36% of the patients travelled by taxi. This frequency gives an estimated 70,000 trips by taxi annually at a cost of NOK 60 million for four national hospitals in Oslo. Since at present most of the patients travel one in a taxi. There seems to be a large potential for reducing costs.