West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust
Technologies used at West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust
About West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust
- ODS code
- RYA
- ICBs
- NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB, NHS Black Country ICB, NHS Coventry and Warwickshire ICB, NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB, NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB, NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB
- Counties
- Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire
- Region
- West Midlands
- Approx yearly admissions
- Not available
- Approx catchment population
- 6,000,000
West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust provides emergency and urgent care across a region of approximately 5,000 square miles and six million people. Its workforce of around 7,500 responds to roughly 4,000 999 calls each day, dispatching ambulances, specialist clinicians and rapid-response resources from operational hubs across the West Midlands.
Alongside emergency response, the trust provides non-emergency patient transport, completing around one million journeys a year for eligible patients attending healthcare appointments. Its control-room clinicians also assess callers and direct them to the most appropriate care. As a university ambulance trust, it places particular emphasis on paramedic education, clinical research, simulation and developing evidence-based out-of-hospital practice.