Validated information about ambulance services’ response times to emergency calls is collected each year by the Department on return KA34 and published annually. Copies are available in the Library and available on the information centre for health and social care’s website at:
www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/icpubfolder_view
The following table shows the number of ambulance paramedics employed in each ambulance trust as at 30 September of each year since 2001. The work force census does not separately identify the number of ambulance technicians from the rest of the ambulance personnel staff group.
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 England1 7,075 7,147 7,241 7,536 8,311 of which: Avon Ambulance Service 185 196 229 262 258 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance and Paramedic Service 340 351 163 166 155 Cumbria Ambulance Service 113 121 144 148 146 Dorset Ambulance Service 154 169 134 158 158 East Anglian Ambulance Service 440 467 348 374 401 East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust 318 320 294 293 296 Essex Ambulance Service 240 233 236 255 313 Gloucestershire Ambulance Service 100 103 100 94 93 Greater Manchester Ambulance Service 301 334 358 381 387 Hampshire Ambulance Service 176 179 167 141 193 Hereford & Worcester Ambulance Service 93 107 101 112 140 Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust 39 38 38 43 45 Kent Ambulance Service 202 191 223 213 248 Lancashire Ambulance Service 136 166 198 210 232 Lincolnshire Ambulance and Health Transport Service 191 181 191 207 225 London Ambulance service 744 770 829 875 961 Mersey Ambulance Service 416 281 337 298 416 North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust 273 255 276 295 301 Oxfordshire Ambulance 63 60 66 66 80 Royal Berkshire Ambulance Service 117 101 179 196 177 South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service 159 133 173 169 179 Staffordshire Ambulance Service 183 206 191 200 428 Surrey Ambulance Service 160 152 147 159 167 Sussex Ambulance Services 217 254 249 278 234 Tees East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 297 298 313 315 309 Two Shires Ambulance Service 90 92 90 111 134 Warwickshire Ambulance Service 70 77 80 125 156 West Midlands Ambulance Service 385 495 486 432 454 West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service 251 252 284 320 334 Westcountry Ambulance Service 432 464 516 541 568 Wiltshire Ambulance Service 109 98 96 87 85 1 A small number of ambulance paramedics are employed outside ambulance trusts. These are included in the England totals to provide national figures. Note: Ambulance service staff can be coded as: managers, paramedics, personnel or trainee personnel. The numbers in the table are for paramedics as reported by the trusts. It is possible that trusts may have revised the coding of some staff from paramedic to personnel and vice versa in the light of improved guidance on coding. Source: The information centre for health and social care non-medical workforce census