The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust was formed on 1 July 2006 as part of Health Minister Lord Warner's plans to reduce the number of NHS ambulance service trusts operating in the United Kingdom to 12. Norman Reginald Warner, Baron Warner, PC (born 8 September 1940), is a Labour member of the House of Lords. ... The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly-funded healthcare system of the United Kingdom. ...
Based in Bolton, the new Trust provides services to almost 7 million people in Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire and Cumbria, an area of some 5,500 square miles. Arms of Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council, the motto is Latin for Overcome Delays Bolton is a large town in the north-west of England. ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England established in 1974 which covers an area roughly encompassing the conurbation surrounding the City of Manchester. ... The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a county... Merseyside is a metropolitan county, located in the North West of England. ... Lancashire is a county and duchy palatine in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England. ...
The Trust currently operates from 114 ambulance stations and employs around 4,500 staff.