Northern Ireland Ambulance Service

Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is well known as NIAS and has commenced on first April of 1995. This ambulance service was located under the Health and Personal Social Services. Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is served its ambulance service in all areas of Northern Ireland.

This ambulance service is also not charged directly from patients for ambulance services like the other air ambulances services in the UK. But, this air ambulance service gets financing in place of it by common taxation. .

The ambulance is reacted to medicinal urgent situations in the areas of Northern Ireland in the company of other 270 air ambulances at its clearance.

The air ambulance services appoints about 850 members in medical staff those are based on a Regional Training Center, approximately 32 stations and sub-stations and four control centers.

The main purpose of NIAS is to communicate services offered for ambulance control centers, to manage air ambulance and transfer of patients. This ambulance gives statutory ambulance services to about 1.7 million population of the Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service provides the following services to people:

• This ambulance provides transportation and Non-Emergency Patient Care. The travels carry out includes inter-hospital transfers and discharges, admissions and hospital out patient appointments.

• Education and training of air ambulance professionals

• Urgent response to people with suddenly injury and illness

• Specific health transport services

• Support for society that is based on primary responder services

• Co-ordination and planning for main events, disasters and mass casualty accidents

• Society education

• Stand-by at particular events

• Care research out-of-hospital

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is contacted by 15,500 miles of highways and has the field of about 5,600 square miles. This ambulance is classified into board areas such as North, South, East and West for health services missions.

But this ambulance is operated like a regional service in these fields. The major mission of this ambulance is to provide efficient and effective care to public in necessitate and well being of the society and improve the health by the release of the highest qualitative air ambulance services.

Northern Ireland Ambulance Services are divided in the following:

• Emergency Services and Support
• Non-Emergency Services and Support
• Administration and Support Services

Trust Committees

This ambulance is operated various Sub-Committees such as:

Audit Committee

The Audit Committee is very effective to control financial internally and its Non-Executive Membership may include the following:

• Mr. S Mullen
• Professor R Perrott
• Mrs. L Gillespie

Medical and Social Governance Committee

Medical and Social Governance Committee offers assurances that include local arrangements to secure accountability ford the regulation, delivery and monitoring in a qualitative and risk management framework. Its non-executive membership may include:

• Mr. F Hughes
• Mrs. M Greer

Remuneration Committee

It is useful to create recommendations for the Trust Board and based on conditions, remuneration and terms of service of the Directors and the Chief Executive. Non-executive membership may include:

• Mrs. L Gillespie
• Mr. D Smyth
• Mrs. M Greer