Area Profile

Demographics:

The Trust serves the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. The area is made up of:

• More than 5.8 million people
• 7,500 square miles
• 13 primary care trusts
• 17 acute trusts
• One health authority

In 2010/11 the Trust:

• Responded to 693,382 emergency calls
• Handled more than one million non-emergency patient journeys
• Delivered primary care services to 457,609 patients
• In addition to emergency and non-emergency ambulance provision, we provide GP out of hours care in Norfolk and parts of Essex.

Our resources include: 

• 273 frontline ambulances
• 215 marked response cars
• 237 non-emergency ambulances
• 25 major incident vehicles with decontamination equipment, plus mobile control rooms
• 110 ambulance stations and response posts
• Three health and emergency operations centres (HEOCs or control rooms)
• We employ nearly 4,000 staff and more than 2,500 volunteers
• Our total income in 2010/11 was more than £222 million