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Facts and Figures

 

Monthly Activity Data

June 2009	Incidents	Responses	Transports
Emergency	54,298	66,823	41,575
Non-emergency	24,105	26,799	22,399
Total	78,403	93,622	63,974

 

May 2009	Incidents	Responses	Transports
Emergency	54,792	66,478	42,129
Non-emergency	22,849	25,317	21,337
Total	77,641	91,795	63,466

 

April 2009	Incidents	Responses	Transports
Emergency	52,074	63,433	39,770
Non-emergency	20,925	23,249	19,518
Total	72,999	86,682	59,288

 

March 2009	Incidents	Responses	Transports
Emergency	55,429	68,225	42,410
Non-emergency	22,513	24,899	20,933
Total	77,942	93,124	63,343

 

February 2009	Incidents	Responses	Transports
Emergency	50,368	61,184	37,858
Non-emergency	20,154	22,085	18,894
Total	70,522	83,269	56,752

 

January 2009	Incidents	Responses	Transports
Emergency	56,519	68,482	41,678
Non-emergency	20,855	22,789	19,537
Total	77,374	91,271	61,215

 

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

Workforce Statistics

Category	Number of Staff (as at June 2008)	Staff Statistics Of the 3,778 staff employed within Ambulance, 89.97 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	14
Nursing	32
Ambulance clinical services (mobile)	3,105
Ambulance clinical services (operations centre)	262
Corporate Services	194
Scientific and Technical Clinical Support Staff	8
Hotel Services	15
Maintenance & Trades	56
Support staff	92
TOTAL	3,778

 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 and north to Hillston.

Western Division - extends from the South Australian border 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.