In June 2004 the Department of Health announced plans to modernise the domicilliary oxygen service in England and Wales. The new service will provide patients with many benefits including a full medical assessment of their oxygen needs.
Oxygen suppliers have been awarded contracts and they will be tasked to provide oxygen equipment to meet the needs of the patient including ambulatory oxygen. For the patient this means that they will only have one supplier for all their oxygen needs.
BOC has won the contract to provide this new home oxygen therapy service across the following regions:-