Queensland Ambulance Service

Queensland Ambulance Service

Agency overview
Formed	12 September 1892 (1892-09-12)
Preceding agencies	City Ambulance Transport Brigade Queensland Ambulance Service Transport Brigades
Jurisdiction	Queensland Government
Employees	6,600
Agency executives	Craig Emery ASM, Commissioner Dee Taylor Dutton ASM, Deputy Commissioner – South QLD Kari Arbouin, Deputy Commissioner – North QLD Stephen Zsombok ASM, Deputy Commissioner
Parent department	Queensland Health
Website	ambulance.qld.gov.au

The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) is the state emergency ambulance and patient transport provider in Queensland, Australia. QAS is part of the Queensland Government under the Queensland Health portfolio and is one of the largest ambulance services in the world.^[1]

QAS provides emergency response services, pre-hospital patient care, specialised transport services, coordination of aero-medical services and inter-hospital transfers to all of Queensland, accounting around 4.7 million people spread over 1,727,000 km² (667,000 sq mi).^[2][3][4]

Over 4500 FTE staff are employed by QAS, around 87% of whom are front-line staff. QAS operates out of 290 response locations across the state, and handled over 946,000 cases and 737,803 triple zero calls in 2015/16.^[5]