Fleet
The Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) operate just over 500 Dual Manned Ambulance (DMAs) which are crewed by two members of staff, these are usually of the Skill set of a Paramedic, Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Assistant Practitioner (AP) or sometimes an Emergency Care Practitioner (ECP) when completing overtime.
The service also operates over 460 Patient Transport Service (PTS) vehicles with around about 758 PTS staff to work them.
The Service can deploy 2 MD 902 Explorer Helicopters of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance to emergencies and incidents across the service area, however the Air Ambulance Service is a charity and not part of YAS; Paramedics are provided by the Ambulance Service and work on a rota between them, sometimes Doctors who are voluntary members of the BASICS (British Association for Immediate Care) fly with the helimed team to offer additional medical skills.
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