South Yorkshire Ambulance Service was the NHS ambulance service covering South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It has a population of 1.29 million. It consists of four metropolitan boroughs: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and City of Sheffield...

, England. On 1 July 2006 it was merged into the new Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Yorkshire Ambulance Service

The Yorkshire Ambulance Service is the NHS ambulance service covering most of Yorkshire in England. It covers the whole of the East Riding of Yorkshire , South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire along with the majority of the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire...

.

History

South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service was formed in 1974, bringing together the individual town and city services which existed across the county. In 1992, it became an NHS Trust

NHS Trust

A National Health Service trust provides services on behalf of the National Health Service in England and NHS Wales.The trusts are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations. Each trust is headed by a board consisting of executive and non-executive directors, and is...

, providing 24-hour emergency and healthcare services to more than 1.4 million people across the region.

See also

• Yorkshire Ambulance Service
  Yorkshire Ambulance Service
  The Yorkshire Ambulance Service is the NHS ambulance service covering most of Yorkshire in England. It covers the whole of the East Riding of Yorkshire , South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire along with the majority of the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire...
  
  
• Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom