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Welcome to Westcountry Ambulance Services NHS Trust's website. I hope that from the content of the following pages you will be able to obtain the information you need. Please feel able to contact us, either to make suggestions, or to enable us to help with your queries.

Westcountry Ambulance Service covers the largest geographical area of any single Ambulance Service in England, extending over fifteen thousand square kilometres. Covering Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, it provides one of the most challenging environments in which to provide an Ambulance Service.

We are justly proud that staff are pro-active in working to provide a high standard of out of hospital care and advice to our resident and visiting population.

The Trust is working hard to set the standard for others to follow. We are working particularly to develop effective partnerships with the wider health community to ensure that the patient not only receives timely care but also that such care is delivered by the most appropriate person. We are also keen to work closely with patients and their representatives as part of our involvement strategies.

The Service operates three air ambulances, all of which are funded by independent charities.

The demand for emergency ambulance services continues to increase each year and as such to maintain the standards we wish to provide becomes even more of a challenge.

Please remember ambulances are for emergencies so please, stop, think before you dial 999. Your help in reducing the demand to those who really need it will mean that we can help those who need it most.

For further information or to purchase any of these products please visit our Website at www.was.co.uk