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The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) is the authority responsible for providing National Health Service (NHS) ambulance services in the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, in the East of England region. It is one of 12 Ambulance Trusts providing England with emergency medical services, and is part of the NHS, receiving direct government funding for its role. There is no charge to patients for use of the service, and under the Patient's Charter every person in the United Kingdom has the right to the attendance of an ambulance in an emergency. As well as providing an emergency ambulance service, the Trust also provides out-of-hours primary care services, patient transport, commercial services and special operations such as air ambulances, emergency planning, and hazardous materials incident response.〔()〕 The Trust controls the mobilisation of Immediate Care charities throughout its area. These include Magpas, SARS, NARS and East Anglian Air Ambulance.〔(List of Care Schemes in East of England ) BASICS, Accessed 18/10/2010〕 ==History== The trust was formed on 1 July 2006 following the three-way merger of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance and Paramedic Service NHS Trust, the East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust, and the Essex Ambulance Service NHS Trust. The result was a service covering an area of over with a population of 5.8 million people, and one which answers over 500,000 emergency calls per year.〔East of England Ambulance Service〕 The East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust was formed in 1994 from the three-way merger of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk Ambulance Services.〔(EAAT welcomes ambulance merger ) East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust, 16 May 2006〕 In 2009, the Trust was censured by the Care Quality Commission after inspection of an ambulance depot and seven of its 100 ambulance stations found patient-carrying vehicles were "dirty" and that staff were "unsure of basic measures for infection prevention and control". The service launched an "urgent and comprehensive review" of its ambulance cleaning programme and reiterated its stance on patient safety, adding that "ensuring consistent high standards of cleanliness is a challenge" with so many stations, covering six counties and an area of 7,500 square-miles.〔(Patients at risk of infection from dirty ambulances ) The Telegraph, 2 Oct 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East of England Ambulance Service」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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