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- On 1 April 1965, nine ambulance services merged to create London Ambulance Service.
- In 1966 there were one million 999 ambulance calls for an ambulance in the whole of the UK while last year (April 2013 to March 2014), we responded to around 1.7 million calls and attended over one million incidents in London alone.
- In 1965 ambulance men and women did an eight week training course, which involved practical training and a driving course. Today paramedics complete a three year degree.
- Today, we have a wide range of frontline staff, from emergency ambulance crew, through to advanced and consultant paramedics and have a paramedic at director-level on our Trust Board.
999 was the first emergency telephone number in the world when it was launched on 30 June, 1937. Within the first week, more than a thousand calls were made to the service. Today, it is 80 years since the service came into effect.
The History of the Ambulance Service The concept of ambulance service started in Europe with the Knights of St. John. During the Crusades in the 11th century, the Knights of St. John received instruction in first-aid treatment from Arab and Greek doctors and acted as the first emergency workers. They treated soldiers from both sides of the war and
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May 5, 2012 · The dominant philosophy in the 1960s, still echoed in the media today, is that the ambulance service exists to serve the needs of the seriously ill and injured and to transport patients to local hospitals, a concept that can be traced to a much earlier period of pre-hospital care.
The history of the London Ambulance Service is chosen because more is written about it in these journals but services in other British cities and the USA are mentioned since they played a part in influencing change.
- Alexander Pollock
- 2013
May 1, 2020 · When was it that people first began to organise police forces, ambulance services and fire brigades? Which services were the first in Britain? And which were the first in the world?
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Jun 1, 2012 · Stout also provided a useful metric, ‘termed unit hour utilisation’, to determine the productivity of an ambulance service by simply dividing the number of patients transported, or patient contacts, by the availability of ambulance time expressed in hours (Stout, 1983).
