Queensland Ambulance Service

"QAS" redirects here. For other uses, see QAS (disambiguation).

Queensland Ambulance Service
Agency overview
Formed12 September 1892 (1892-09-12)
Preceding agencies
  • City Ambulance Transport Brigade
  • Queensland Ambulance Service Transport Brigades
JurisdictionQueensland Government
Employees6,600
Agency executives
  • Craig Emery ASM, Commissioner
  • Dee Taylor Dutton ASM, Deputy Commissioner – South QLD
  • Kari Arbouin, Deputy Commissioner – North QLD
  • Stephen Zsombok ASM, Deputy Commissioner
Parent departmentQueensland Health
Websiteambulance.qld.gov.au

The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) is the state emergency ambulance and patient transport provider in Queensland, Australia. QAS is part of the Queensland Government under the Queensland Health portfolio and is one of the largest ambulance services in the world.[1]

QAS provides emergency response services, pre-hospital patient care, specialised transport services, coordination of aero-medical services and inter-hospital transfers to all of Queensland, accounting around 4.7 million people spread over 1,727,000 km2 (667,000 sq mi).[2][3][4]

Over 4500 FTE staff are employed by QAS, around 87% of whom are front-line staff. QAS operates out of 290 response locations across the state, and handled over 946,000 cases and 737,803 triple zero calls in 2015/16.[5]

  1. ^ About QAS Archived 6 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Department of Community Safety. Retrieved on 9 November 2011.
  2. ^ "Queensland". ABS 2016 Census QuickStats. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Interesting facts about Queensland". Queensland Government. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  4. ^ Queensland Ambulance Service performance report 2009 Archived 20 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Department of Emergency Services. Retrieved on 9 November 2011.
  5. ^ "Public Performance Indicators financial year ending June 2016" (PDF). Queensland Ambulance Service. Retrieved 21 January 2017.