North West Ambulance Service
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The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS) is the ambulance service for North West England. It is one of ten ambulance trusts providing England with Emergency medical services, and is part of the National Health Service, receiving direct government funding for its role.
| North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust | |
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| NWAS | |
 The NHS corporate identity logo of North West Ambulance Service Trust | |
 Map of North West Ambulance Service's coverage | |
| Type | NHS trust |
| Established | 1 July 2006 |
| Headquarters | Bolton[1] |
| Region served | Greater Manchester, Cheshire Merseyside, Cumbria, Lancashire and part of the High Peak district of Derbyshire |
| Area size | 5,400 sq. miles |
| Population | 7.5 million |
| Budget | £310 million (Approx) |
| Chair | Peter White |
| Chief executive | Daren Mochrie |
| Staff | 5,912 (2018/19)[2] |
| Website | www |
NWAS was formed on 1 July 2006, following the merger of four previous services (Cumbria Ambulance Service; Lancashire Ambulance Service; Cheshire and Mersey Ambulance Service; and Greater Manchester Ambulance Service) as part of Health Minister Lord Warner's plans to combine ambulance services.[3]
Based in Bolton, the trust provides services to almost 7 million people in Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire, Cumbria, and the North Western fringes of the High Peak district of Derbyshire (covering the towns of Glossop and Hadfield) in an area of 5,500 square miles (14,000 km2). NWAS provides emergency ambulance response via the 999 system, as well as operating the NHS 111 advice service for North West England.
They also operate non-emergency patient transport services (PTS) for part of the region, and in 2013/2014 carried out 1.2 million such journeys. Since 2016, the PTS in Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral has instead been carried out by West Midlands Ambulance Service.[4]