Ambulance ServiceSurrey Ambulance Service
This section provides information about the Surrey Ambulance Service.
The Surrey Ambulance Service provides an A & E service to the whole of Surrey and the Northeast corner of Hampshire covering 720 square miles and a resident population of 1.4 million people.
Emergency calls in 1996/97 equalled 76,000, they have risen to 98,200 in 2001/02, this is an increase of 29.21% over the past 5 years.
The Emergency Service has many demands on its time including responsibility for Gatwick Airport, Terminal Four at Heathrow, military establishments at Farnborough and Aldershot and 100 miles of motorway M25, M23, and M3 (the A3 can be included as this has 3 lanes) carrying a further million people across the county each day.
In the past year the Surrey Ambulance Service has made radical changes to the way it operates introducing Paramedic Single Responders who drive motorcycles and fast response cars in order to improve our response times to patients.
Emergency Response is directed by the Service’s Emergency Dispatch Centre at Banstead, which tracks the whereabouts and availability of every operational vehicle using a Automatic Vehicle Location System (Known as “DATATRAK”) All A/E vehicles have been installed with the state of the art Satellite Navigation System, which assist the crews in locating addresses quickly
Computers are used to aid the highly trained control staff and to provide on-going records of ambulance deployment.
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