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Facts and Figures

 

Monthly Activity Data

July 2008	Incidents	Responses	Transports
Emergency	58,984	73,816	44,589
Non-emergency	23,491	26,166	21,840
Total	82,475	99,982	66,429

 

June 2008	Incidents	Responses	Transports
Emergency	55,421	69,134	41,698
Non-emergency	21,999	24,266	20,586
Total	77,420	93,400	62,284

 

May 2008	Incidents	Responses	Transports
Emergency	57,482	72,225	43,020
Non-emergency	22,839	26,165	21,327
Total	80,321	97,390	64,347

 

April 2008	Incidents	Responses	Transports
Emergency	53,249	66,374	39,712
Non-emergency	21,416	23,504	19,932
Total	74,665	89,878	59,644

 

March 2008	Incidents	Responses	Transports
Emergency	56,873	70,518	42,052
Non-emergency	21,105	23,147	19,655
Total	77,978	93,665	61,707

 

February 2008	Incidents	Responses	Transports
Emergency	52,713	64,848	38,961
Non-emergency	20,308	22,097	19,025
Total	73,021	86,945	57,986

Incident: A call or calls to one specific location for ambulance assistance or transport (where at least one ambulance resource has been sent).

Response: An individual ambulance resource dispatched to an incident.

Transport: An ambulance response resulting in the transport of a patient

Emergency Activity: Emergency activity is defined as ‘000’ cases determined as ‘emergency’ (immediate response under lights and sirens) or ‘urgent’ (undelayed response without warning devices).

Non-Emergency Activity: Non-emergency activity is defined as ‘000’ cases not determined as ‘emergency’ or ‘urgent’ as well as calls not received via the 000 network, predominantly scheduled patient transfer services and out-patient appointments.

2006/07 Activity Data

Workforce Statistics

Category	Number of Staff (as at June 2007)	Staff Statistics Of the 3,540 staff employed within Ambulance, 89.1 per cent are uniformed paramedics. The remaining employees are predominantly corporate administration staff working in areas such as policy development, human resources, payroll, administrative support, automotive repairs and stores.
Medical	3
Nursing	20
Ambulance clinical services (mobile)	2,899
Ambulance clinical services (operations centre)	256
Corporate Services	182
Scientific and Technical Clinical Support Staff	9
Hotel Services	14
Maintenance & Trades	61
Support staff	96
TOTAL	3,540

 Ambulance Vehicles

Our current fleet of vehicles includes:

• 954 ambulances (stretcher carrying vehicles) - consisting of Mercedes, VW, Land Cruisers and Ford Transits (Ford Transits are used solely for the Patient Transport Service)
• Approx 400 support vehicles (including rescue trucks, megalift, cars, 36 rapid response vehicles)
• 3 BMW Motorbikes
• 4 Beechcraft Super Kingair B200c aircraft (Contracted)
• 9 helicopters (Contracted)
• Specialist over snow vehicles – including a Kassborher oversnow vehicle, two Yamaha and two Bearcat snowmobiles a Toyota 4WD Landcruiser (Mattrac equipped) and a 4WD Quad Bike and trailer.

Did you know....?

• The Ambulance vehicle fleet is now on average eighteen months old making it one of the most modern and largest ambulance fleet in the world.
  

Location of ambulance stations

There are a total of 226 ambulance stations including honorary stations throughout the State, located within four separate divisions. Each Division is responsible for service delivery, administrative and business support functions, while the operation centres coordinate all resources in their particular geographical areas.

Sydney Division- the most densely populated division, encompassing Wahroonga to the north, the Blue Mountains to the west and The Royal National Park to the south.
Northern Division- extends from the Queensland border in the north, to the Hawkesbury River in the south, including the towns of Murrurundi and Merriwa to the west.
Southern Division-extends from Helensburgh to the Victorian border in the south, continuing west to the South Australian border, then north to the Queensland border including the city of Broken Hill.
Western Division- from Cober in the west and the Queensland border in the north, Oberon and Ivanhoe to the south and Lithgow to the east.

Operation Centres

Located in Sydney, Dubbo, Charlestown (Newcastle) and Warilla (Wollongong)

Download a copy of our Sydney and NSW map. Both maps include a list of all ambulance stations.