Ambulance Tasmania provides emergency ambulance care, rescue and transport services and a non-emergency patient transport service through a network of 45 urban, rural and remote ambulance stations.

Ambulance Tasmania has a range of salaried staff from highly trained paramedics, to ambulance officers and students in training as well as 500 volunteer ambulance officers. Collectively these officers work closely with public and private hospitals and health facilities providers, intrastate and interstate organisations.

Ambulance Tasmania also works closely with allied emergency services, such as Tasmania Police, State Emergency Service and Tasmanian Fire Service.

Ambulance Tasmania also contracts the Royal Flying Doctor Service to provide aircraft and pilots for our fixed wing air ambulance operational response and has an association with Tasmania Police for rotary wing movements both intra and interstate.

Ambulance Tasmania provides a free service to Tasmanian residents. The only chargeable cases are those related to motor vehicle or workplace accidents where insurance arrangements cover costs.

In addition the Department of Veterans Affairs meet the cost of ambulance transport for veterans.

Contact

The 000 emergency telephone number connects with the 24 hour statewide communications centre for emergency response from ambulance services anywhere in Tasmania.

All other calls for treatment and transport can be made by phoning 1800 008 008.

Requests for transport via non-urgent patient transport can be made through the phone numbers of 1800 008 008 or 1300 513 997.

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