Westershire Ambulance
Service
The Westershire Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides frontline 999 medical care to the county of westershire 24/7, 365 days a week. We also provide a non emergency patient transport service to those who can not make it to or from hospitals, clinics or other medical facility's.
About us
Our area is made up of:
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912 Square miles
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600,000 People
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In 2016 the trust handled:
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324,000 999 Calls
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120,000 Non emergency patient transfers
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Our resources include:
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96 Front line ambulances
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35 Rapid response vehicles
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8 HART Vehicles
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80 Non emergency ambulance vehicles
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6 Hub bases
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9 Community response posts
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15 Community first responders
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4 Advanced paramedic response vehicles
Demographics
Our Locations
Hub Bases
Exbridge
Yetbury
Stonebridge (HQ)
Naybourne
Heaton Moss
Finsbrook
Northaven
Moswater
Ivyminster
Oakdale
Oldhill
Woodside
Community Response Posts
Fairacre
Forest Heath
Hendlae
Our Partners
To assist us in providing complete care to the residents of Westershire we have several partners who provide emergency medical care and non emergency care across the county.
Westershire air ambulance
The Westershire Air Ambulance (WAA) has been providing emergency trauma care to the residents of westershire since 1995, currently we have two EC-135 helicopters and two fast response vehicles, from our two bases we can reach anywhere in the county in 20 minutes by using the helicopter and an hour by car. We provide BASICS level of care through our 5 doctors that work with the air ambulance.
The Airmedix Trauma Team was set up to provide national BASICS coverage to the United Kingdom in 2007, we also provide Air Medical and BASICS support to the county of Westershire, we have one helicopter and one response car and can be in the air responding to incidents around the UK in about 5 minutes.
Airmedix Trauma Team
HMERS Provides support for the Westershire Ambulance Service, we have 20 emergency ambulances, 5 rapid response vehicles and 13 non emergency transport vehicles, we also provide event medical cover.
Health & Medical Emergency Response Service (HMERS)
St John Ambulance is the nation’s leading first aid charity.
Every year, more than 400,000 people learn how to save a life through our training programmes, including hundreds of thousands of young people. Our volunteers provide first aid in their communities, keeping people safe at events, and working alongside the NHS in response to 999 calls. We’re also always campaigning to raise awareness of first aid and directly educate the public. For more information visit: https://www.sja.org.uk/sja/default.aspx
St John Ambulance
