Patient Transport Service
In addition to frontline emergency ambulance services, the HSE National Ambulance Service provides a routine and non-routine inter-facility transfer service 24 hours a day. In 2012, the NAS brought on stream the Intermediate Care Vehicle (ICV). This specially designed vehicle is equipped and crewed for the purpose of responding to non-emergency calls and providing an inter-facility transfer service which in turn will make more frontline vehicles available for emergencies. The new vehicles will be crewed by registered emergency medical technicians called Intermediate Care Operatives (ICOs).
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