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The National Health Service Act 1946 gave county (and county borough) councils in England and Wales a statutory responsibility to provide an emergency ambulance service, although they could contract a voluntary ambulance service to provide this. In 1977/78 ambulance services in the UK cost about £138m.
One of London Ambulance Service's frontline vehicles The London Air Ambulance in action Peugeot Ambulance of the Scottish Ambulance Service. Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom provide emergency care to people with acute illness or injury and are predominantly provided free at the point of use by the four National Health Services (NHS) of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern ...
Pages in category "Ambulance services in the United Kingdom" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The first air ambulance services in the UK commenced in Scotland in November 1933, with a flight from Wideford Airport, Kirkwall, Orkney. The first night time ambulance flight was undertaken in February 1939, from Wideford to the island of Sanday, using car headlights to help take off and landing.
The developments were paralleled in other countries. In the United Kingdom, a 1973 law merged the municipal ambulance services into larger agencies and set national standards. [28] In France, the first official SAMU agencies were founded in the 1970s. [29]
The West Midlands Ambulance Service has advised its 999 call handlers to ask patients if they can make their own way to the hospital when services are under high demand.
This is a List of United Kingdom uniformed services which includes all uniformed public, emergency, armed and charity services in the United Kingdom and overseas territories. [ 1 ] The services listed here are national, regional, local, recognised, emergency, public-serving, military and educational and support services.
Pages in category "Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .