NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Great Western Ambulance Service

The Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides services in Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire in the South West England region. It was formed on April 1, 2006 from the merger of the Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire ambulance services. An ambulance in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico A Helicopter used as an Ambulance. ... The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly-funded healthcare system of the United Kingdom. ... Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority that was created on April 1, 1996 following the abolition of the County of Avon. ... View from Cumberland Basin of the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Avon Gorge Bristol (IPA: ) is a city, unitary authority and ceremonial county in South West England, 115 miles (185 km) west of London and between the cities of Bath, Gloucester and Newport. ... Gloucestershire (pronounced ; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England. ... North Somerset is a unitary authority in England, historically part of the county of Somerset but now administered independently. ... South Gloucestershire is a local government area in South West England. ... The article on the town of Swindon is here. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... South West England is one of the regions of England. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Look up Avon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Its headquarters is at Jenner House, Chippenham, Wiltshire. Statistics Population: 30,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: ST919733 Administration District: North Wiltshire Shire county: Wiltshire Region: South West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Wiltshire Services Police force: Wiltshire Constabulary Fire and rescue: Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service Ambulance: Great Western Post office...

The trust had a difficult start, marked by redundancies, training centre and ambulance station closures, strained industrial relations with its recognised union and unprecedented attacks from the local media. The trust also faces losing its non-emergency Patient Transport Services contracts to private contractors.

One of the trust's three control rooms, the Avon Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre at Acuma House, Almondsbury, is recognised as a Centre of Excellence for emergency call handling and dispatch. One of the EMDC team received the International EMD of the Year Award. Location within the British Isles Almondsbury is a large village near junction 16 of the M5 motorway, in South Gloucestershire, England. ...

Avon hosts the south-west's primary CBRN terrorist response capability and has been praised for its well governed and effective First Response scheme. CBRN is an acronym used extensively by the UK security services and the UK emergency services. ...

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This is a list of ambulance services in the United Kingdom: Ambulance services in England, after July 1, 2006 are A few deviations from the above have been made for operational reasons. ...

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England: East Midlands | East of England | Great Western | Isle of Wight Primary Care Trust | London | North East | North West | South Central | South East Coast | South Western | Staffordshire | West Midlands | Yorkshire
Wales: Welsh Scotland: Scottish Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Crest of NHS ambulance services in England Crest of the Scottish Ambulance Service In the UK, the majority of ambulance services are provided under the National Health Service through local ambulance trusts. Each trust is specific to a county or area, and so the country is divided across a number... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) is an ambulance service formed in April 1999 as a result of the merging of the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire (including Rutland) ambulance services. ... The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the authority responsible for providing NHS ambulance services in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton, Norfolk, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Suffolk and Thurrock, in the East of England region. ... The London Ambulance Service (LAS) is the largest ambulance service in the world that does not directly charge its patients for its services. ... The North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the authority responsible for providing NHS ambulance services in Darlington, Durham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Northumberland, Stockton-on-Tees, and Tyne and Wear in the North East England region. ... The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust was formed on 1 July 2006 as part of Health Minister Lord Warners plans to reduce the number of NHS ambulance service trusts operating in the United Kingdom to 12. ... The South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the authority responsible for providing NHS ambulance services in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Portsmouth, and Southampton, in the South East England region. ... As of 1st July the NHS Ambulance Services Trusts of Kent, Surrey and Sussex are being joined together to form a new South East Coast Ambulance Service . ... The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the authority responsible for providing NHS ambulance services in the counties of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset (including the Bournemouth, Plymouth, Poole, Torbay and Isles of Scilly unitary authorities) in South West England. ... The Staffordshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the authority responsible for providing NHS ambulance services in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands region. ... The West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the authority responsible for providing NHS ambulance services in Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, Warwickshire, West Midlands, and Worcestershire in the West Midlands region. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Welsh Ambulance Service (also called the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust or Ymddiriedolaeth GIG Gwasanaethau Ambiwlans Cymru) was established on April 1, 1998 and has 2,500 staff providing ambulance and related services to the 2. ... Two Mercedes-Benz Sprinter-based ambulances of the Scottish Ambulance Service The Scottish Ambulance Service serves all of Scotland and is a special health board funded directly by the health department of the Scottish Executive. ... The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) is the ambulance service that serves the whole of Northern Ireland. ...

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