Ambulance services: a logical, effective and economic solution.
Ambulance services tend to be over-manned and under-productive. Metropolitan services, run by regions, cost more and are less sensitive to local needs than those run by areas. In offering his strictly personal views, Terry Ball, staff officer, West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service, suggests that in future DHAs should run the ambulances.
D000552:Ambulances; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000191:economics*; D006113:United Kingdom