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The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) is the chief provider of out-of-hospital emergency care and ambulance transport in the state of Queensland, Australia. It falls under the control of the Queensland Health and is the fourth-largest ambulance service in the world.〔(About QAS ). Department of Community Safety. Retrieved on 9 November 2011.〕 The service provides a high level of emergency care and transport services to over 4.1 million people in Queensland, covering an area of 1.77 million square kilometres. They provide such services as emergency response, pre-hospital patient care, specialised transport services, coordination of aero-medical services and inter-hospital transfers.〔(Queensland Ambulance Service performance report 2009 ). Department of Emergency Services. Retrieved on 9 November 2011.〕 Almost 4000 staff are employed by QAS, with almost 85% as front-line operatives, who together deliver their services from over 260 response locations across the state.〔 In 2011/12, the service handled over 833,000 cases, answered over 160,000 triple zero calls and had an overall patient satisfaction rating of 97%. ==History== Ambulance services in Queensland first began in 1892. Military medic Seymour Warrian held the first meeting of the City Ambulance Transport Brigade on 12 September of that year. Queensland's first ambulance station operated out of the Brisbane Newspaper Company building; the first officers possessed a stretcher, but no vehicle, and so transported patients on foot.〔(Queensland Ambulance Service History and Heritage ). Department of Community Safety. Retrieved on 9 November 2011.〕 A year after the establishment of the Brisbane centre, another was established in Charters Towers in north Queensland, eventually growing to over 90 community controlled ambulance centres. The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) as currently known was formed on 1 July 1991 from the amalgamation of 96 individual Queensland Ambulance Service Transport Brigades (QATB). While QAS originally operated under the banner of the Department of Emergency Services, in 2009 the Queensland Government restructured the organisational hierarchy and appointed new Ministers. It became part of the Department of Community Safety, along with the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service, Emergency Management Queensland and Department of Corrective Services.〔 As a result of the Keelty Review of Police and Community Safety in Queensland, the QAS transitioned into the Queensland Department of Health as of 1 October 2013, retaining its separate identity, rank structure and Commissioner. 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「Queensland Ambulance Service」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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