Northern Ireland Ambulance Service

Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust
Established	1 April 1995
Headquarters	Belfast[1]
Region served	Northern Ireland
Area size	5,345 square miles (13,840 km2)
Population	1.9 million
Establishments	46 stations and deployment points
Chair	Michele Larmour [2]
Chief executive	Michael Bloomfield [3]
Staff	1,300 (2018/19)[4]
Website	nias.hscni.net

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS, Irish: Seirbhís Otharchairr Thuaisceart Éireann) is an ambulance service that serves the whole of Northern Ireland, approximately 1.9 million people. As with other ambulance services in the United Kingdom, it does not charge its patients directly for its services, but instead receives funding through general taxation. It responds to medical emergencies in Northern Ireland with the 300-plus ambulance vehicles at its disposal. Its fleet includes mini-buses, ambulance officers' cars, support vehicles, RRVs and accident and emergency ambulances.