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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 · In comparatively recent mid-20th century history ambulance services operated to a simple formula, conceived and designed function essentially as transport providers as even in the earlier days transport was the main, but not sole purpose, with little capability to influence patient outcome.
In 1974, when the National Health Service was reorganised, the London Ambulance Service was transferred from the control of local government to the South West Thames Regional Health Authority. In 1989 staff took part in a nationwide strike for better pay and working conditions.
Jan 18, 2021 · They will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS. "It came as a huge relief when they announced it," says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.
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.
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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).
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In 1965 we only used ambulances to treat and transport people. In 2015 we us ambulances, cars, motorcycles and bikes and can also dispatch a helicopter. On 1 April 1965, nine ambulance services merged to create London Ambulance Service.
