Yorkshire Ambulance Service
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The Yorkshire Ambulance Service is the NHS ambulance service covering Yorkshire in England. It covers North Yorkshire (including York), the East Riding of Yorkshire (including Kingston upon Hull), South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. The part of the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire formerly in Cleveland (that is, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and the southern part of Stockton-on-Tees) is covered by the North East Ambulance Service.
Services are controlled from one of the most up-to-date Communication Centres in Europe [citation needed], located at the Service's headquarters at Birkenshaw, south of Bradford. The service's activities are centred around the two core ones of Accident & Emergency (A&E) and Patient Transport Services (PTS).
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[edit] Geography
The area YAS covers includes the cities of Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield, Ripon, York and Wakefield, and the principal towns of Beverley, Doncaster, Harrogate, Huddersfield, Skipton and Scarborough. The region includes parts of the M1, M62, M621 and M606 motorways and the Yorkshire Dales.
[edit] History
Yorkshire Ambulance Service was formed on the 1st July 2006 after the merger of the Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service (TENYAS), South Yorkshire Ambulance Service (SYAS) and the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service (WYMAS).
[edit] West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service
WYMAS was formed in 1974 covering the new metropolitan county of West Yorkshire and the Craven district of North Yorkshire. It brought together some of the individual city ambulance services which existed across the area. In 1992, it became an NHS Trust, providing 24-hour emergency and healthcare services to more than 2.1 million people across the region. 21 ambulance stations were situated across the WYMAS operating area.
[edit] Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service
TENYAS was formed on April 1, 1999 as a merger of the former Cleveland, Humberside and North Yorkshire ambulance services. TENYAS served the urban areas of Middlesbrough, York and Hull, and the rural areas of the Yorkshire Dales, Wolds, covering an area of approximately 4,500 square miles. The trust had 37 ambulance stations.
Ambulances were deployed from the two control rooms which were situated at Middlesbrough and York. The TENYAS area was broken up on July 1, 2006, with the former Cleveland area now covered by the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS), and the North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire by the East Ambulance Service.
[edit] South Yorkshire Ambulance Service
SYAS was formed in 1974. On 1st April 1992 it became an NHS Trust. It served over 1.4 million people in an area of over 600 square miles and covered the city of Sheffield and the districts of Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham.
