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April 1, 2008 @ 4:55 am
I got this in from listener Tim from NSW, Australia. Some more information on their ambulance services there. ————————— Just heard your podcast interview with Erk. Great interview. I thought I’d expand a little on the Ambulance Service of New South Wales (ASNSW). ASNSW is one of the single largest ambulance services in the world. ASNSW provide EMS to over 6.7 million people in NSW, distributed across an area of 801,600 square kilometres. ASNSW provided over 1,052,000 total responses (both emergency and non-emergency) in 2006/07, equivalent to a call for assistance every 30 seconds. This represents an increase of nearly 53,000 responses or 5.4 per cent compared to 2005/06. Over the last two years demand has increased by 11.2 per cent. There are 226 ambulance stations within the state. There are 4 operations/comms centres covering the state and 1 aeromedical operations centre in Sydney. Of the 3,541 staff employed within the Ambulance Service, 89.7 per cent are uniformed ambulance officers (2,720), including over 130 Honorary Ambulance Officers (Volunteers). The ASNSW fleet includes:
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