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Currently there are 12 NHS ambulance trusts in England (with separate management solutions in place for the Isle of Wight).
Ambulance service free the first point of access to care for a variety of patient conditions, ranging from life-threatening emergencies to chronic illness. They also offer a host of other urgent and planned healthcare and transport services.

Ambulance crew normally consists of assistants and emergency first aid. The crew in all aspects of emergency medical care, training of traumatic injury to cardiac arrest. Ambulance is equipped with a range of emergency medical equipment such as defibrillators, oxygen, intravenous drip, spinal and traction splints and various medications.
Patients are always taken to the hospital if necessary. However, doctors now carry more diagnostic tests and to undertake basic procedures in the scene. Many crews also see patients, social services, which are recognized directly in patient specialist unit and manage a wide range of drugs to deal with diseases such as diabetes, asthma, allergic reactions, overdoses and heart failure.

Emergency calls 999

Emergency 999 calls, ambulance service as a priority in the three categories to ensure life-threatening cases receive the quickest response.
Category: Immediately life threatening. Emergency is to reach 75% of calls within eight minutes.
Category B: a serious but not immediately life threatening. Ambulances will arrive within 19 minutes 95% of the time.
Category C: No serious or life-threatening. Performance standards are set at the local level.
999 calls should be taken only in real danger. To ensure that severely ill and injured patients as soon as possible to people whose reputation is not serious as other medical options to consider calling 999 instead of treated.

They may include:
Self-care at home,
Talk to your local pharmacist
Call NHS Direct on 0845 4647,
Visit your local NHS walk-in center,
See your family doctor or
make your own way to your local and E department (ie not coming to the hospital, all you'll see much faster).

Call Connect

Call Connect, a new method for measuring the response of the ambulance, which came into force on 1 April 2008. Since that time, have the time the ambulance response time from ambulance call to stay connected to the control and not when measured by the most important information obtained from the 999 caller. This means that emergency services to respond, on average it takes 90 seconds, faster than before.
There are two main advantages of this new system:
Call for faster response times to 999,
better clinical results, especially for those who suffer cardiac arrest.
It also means that response time can be recorded accurately and consistently, and better performance in the relationship between trusts.
To meet the new response, no worries have been implemented as a "front-loaded" model, where a response (for example, a car or motorcycle) for binaries emergency teams begin with some familiar calls sent based on the needs of patients. Rapid response vehicles are often faster than traditional ambulances, and can estimate and care until further response arrives.

Air ambulances

Air Ambulance role in providing emergency assistance, particularly in rural areas where road access problem. You can be an effective means better and quicker access to hospitals, and support for inter-hospital transfers of value. But to do during the rescue helicopter service that in some circumstances, they are very expensive to use and research has not shown that strong candidates are exclusively funded by the NHS. From 1 April 2002, the cost of clinical staff on air ambulances to meet the NHS.
 
Dialing 999

Is it a real emergency?
If so, call 999 and do not panic. Operator will ask you several questions, for example:
What happened?

Enter a brief description of the incident
What type injuries / symptoms, a person?
Again, in as much detail as possible
Where did it happen?
It is important that the ambulance as quickly as possible, you can find it, so that as many details about the situation.
How many people are affected?

Please do not hang
Wait for a response from the ambulance control room as they may have more questions for you. The person who handles your call, you will let you know if they have all the information they need. You might also how to manage first aid until the ambulance arrives to be trained.

Non-emergency

In addition to emergency care, with some NHS trust does not provide emergency ambulance services to use the patients (PTS) transport. The number of different organizations can provide the PTS, for example, the local ambulance service, private or nonprofit services, or a combination of these organizations. PTS is the provision of free transport for patients with medical need for transport to, from and between service providers. It is to opt for the local Primary Care Trust, which is patient transport services for patients right in their area.