About Us

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust was formed on 1 July 2006 when the county's three former services merged.

It covers almost 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities. It employs around 4,200 staff and provides 24-hour emergency and healthcare services to a population of more than five million. Over 2,600 volunteers also make a vital contribution to the service.

Facts and Figures:

Yorkshire Ambulance Service:

1. serves more than 5 million people across the county of Yorkshire
2. employs over 4,200 staff, over 80% of whom are operational, working on the front line
3. has A&E 999 communications centres in York and Wakefield
4. received 710,916 emergency calls in 2009-10 - an average of 1,945 calls per day
5. has a Patient Transport Service (PTS) which makes around 1.2 million journeys transporting patients across Yorkshire and neighbouring counties each year
6. operates from 62 ambulance stations across the county and 19 hospital-based Patient Reception Centres
7. has a fleet of over 500 emergency vehicles and 460 PTS vehicles.