HC Deb 09 December 1992 vol 215 c687W
Mr. Adley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the ambulance services which have applied for or have been granted status as self-governing trusts.

Dr. Mawhinney

Twenty four ambulance service units have been established as national health service trusts. They are as follows:

First wave

  1. 1. Northumbria Ambulance NHS Trust.
  2. 2. Lincolnshire Ambulance NHS Trust.
  3. 3. Norfolk Ambulance NHS Trust.
  4. 4. Cornwall Ambulance Service (part of Cornwall Community Healthcare Trust)

Second wave

  1. 5. Cleveland Ambulance NHS Trust.
  2. 6. South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance and Paramedic Service NHS Trust.
  3. 7. Essex Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  4. 8. Avon Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  5. 9. Gloucestershire Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  6. 10. Devon Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  7. 11. Staffordshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  8. 12. Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

Third wave

  1. 13. Cumbria Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  2. 14. Durham County Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  3. 15. West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  4. 16. North Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  5. 17. Humberside Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  6. 18. Nottinghamshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  7. 19. Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  8. 20. The Two Shires—Northampton and Buckinghamshire Ambulance NHS Trust.
  9. 21. Royal Berkshire Ambulance NHS Trust.
  10. 22. Dorset Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  11. 23. Hampshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
  12. 24. Wiltshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust.