NHS Ambulance Services Trust
NHS Ambulance Services Trusts provide ambulance services within the English National Health Service.
Following consultation, on 1 July 2006 the number of ambulance trusts fell from 29 to 13. The reduction can be seen as part of a trend dating back to 1974, when English local authorities ceased to be providers of ambulance services. This round of reductions in the number of trusts originated in the June 2005 report "Taking healthcare to the Patient", authored by Peter Bradley, Chief Executive of the London Ambulance Service, for the Department of Health. Most of the Trusts follow government office regional boundaries. Exceptions include Staffordshire Ambulance Service (which has a temporary reprieve), the Isle of Wight (where provision will remain with the island's Primary Care Trust), South East Coast Ambulance Service, and South Central Ambulance Service.
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