Ambulance & Health Transport

Ambulance & Health Transport provides emergency ambulance care, rescue and transport services and a non-emergency patient transport service through a network of 50 stations State-wide. It also coordinates other providers of road ambulance services as well as fixed and rotary wing air services. Medical staff from Launceston General Hospital work with flight paramedics of the Tasmanian Ambulance Service to provide the statewide Medical Coordination and Retrieval Service, with long distance movements of critical patients (including movements interstate) usually involving fixed wing air movements with the aircraft and pilots provided by the Royal Flying Doctor Service under contract to the Agency.

Tasmania has a wide dispersal of highly qualified paramedics throughout urban and rural areas across the state. There are also over 500 volunteer ambulance officers who either provide support and work alongside paramedics in 14 stations, or respond from 23 wholly volunteer stations in smaller rural and remote areas including King, Flinders and Bruny Islands.

There are also three First Response Services staffed by trained volunteers. The Agency also operates some non-emergency stretcher vehicles staffed by Patient Transport Officers, providing specialised patient transport (including inter-facilities transfers) that support the effective operations of the Public Hospital system."

The unit is headed by Grant Lennox.