National Ambulance Service College
The National Ambulance Service College (NASC) (Irish: Coláiste Náisiúinta tSeirbhís Otharcarr) was first established in 1986 as the National Ambulance Training School and is based at St. Mary's Hospital in the Phoenix Park, Dublin with a second campus based in Ballinasloe, County Galway known as NASC West. The college is due to relocate to a new campus within the proposed new command and control building in Tallaght. The college provides training to NAS staff, hospital staff, An Garda Siochana, Defence Forces personnel and fire service personnel. It is operated by the National Ambulance Service and provides most of its courses in conjunction with the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC). Paramedic and advanced paramedic programmes are conducted in conjunction with both PHECC and University College Dublin.
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