| North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust | |
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| NWAS | |
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 A rapid response vehicle (RRV) going past the Three Graces of Liverpool | |
 Map of North West Ambulance Service's coverage | |
| Type | NHS trust |
| Established | 1 July 2006 |
| Headquarters | Bolton[1] |
| Region served | Greater Manchester, Cheshire Merseyside, Cumbria, Lancashire and part of the High Peak district of Derbyshire |
| Area size | 5,400 sq. miles |
| Population | 7.5 million |
| Budget | £310 million (Approx) |
| Chair | Peter White |
| Chief executive | Daren Mochrie[2] |
| Staff | 5,912 (2018/19)[3] |
| Website | www |
The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS) is the ambulance service for North West England. It is one of ten ambulance trusts providing England with Emergency medical services, and is part of the National Health Service, receiving direct government funding for its role.
NWAS was formed on 1 July 2006, following the merger of four previous services (Cumbria Ambulance Service; Lancashire Ambulance Service; Cheshire and Mersey Ambulance Service; and Greater Manchester Ambulance Service) as part of Health Minister Lord Warner's plans to combine ambulance services.[4]
Based in Bolton, the trust provides services to over 7 million people in Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire, Cumbria, and the North Western fringes of the High Peak district of Derbyshire (covering the towns of Glossop and Hadfield) in an area of 5,500 square miles (14,000 km2). NWAS provides emergency ambulance response via the 999 system, as well as operating the NHS 111 advice service for North West England.
They also operate non-emergency patient transport services (PTS) for part of the region, and in 2013/2014 carried out 1.2 million such journeys. Since 2016, the PTS in Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral has instead been carried out by West Midlands Ambulance Service.[5]
- ^ "Contact details - North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust". Care Quality Commission. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
- ^ "Meet the board".
- ^ "Annual Report 2018/19" (PDF). North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
- ^ "Where we are". nwas.nhs.uk. North West Ambulance Services. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ^ "North West Ambulance Service loses contract to cover Cheshire". Chester Chronicle. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2016.