Ambulance Links
Below are some important links for both the land and air Ambulance services in New Zealand
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St John Ambulance
Service
St John serves communities
throughout New Zealand by delivering emergency and non-emergency ambulance
services for approximately 85% of New Zealand's population. St john also
provides emergency care and first aid at
public events, first aid training and health-related products and services to
the community.
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Wellington Free Ambulance
Service
Wellington Free
Ambulance (WFA), the only recognised free ambulance service in a major New
Zealand city, has been assisting the people of greater Wellington since 1927. An
Incorporated Society run by its own board of management, WFA is an essential
service provider for the community, committed to providing the highest quality
clinical care in emergency situations, pre-hospital care, rescue and transport
services
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AUCKLAND
RESCUE HELICOPTER TRUST
In 1990 a
Charitable Trust was formed with Trustees selected from the community and
business sectors of the greater Auckland region. The primary aim of the Trust is
to provide and develop a highly efficient aero medical service for the benefit
of the community at large. The WestPac Rescue Helicopter serves every community
in the greater Auckland region, in total 1.3 million people.
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Life Flight
The Life Flight
NZ fixed wing air ambulance service has planes based in Auckland and
Wellington. Life Flight
is a charitable trust providing air rescue services to the Greater Wellington Region, Wairarapa and
Marlborough
and air ambulance
services throughout New Zealand.
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Philips Search and Rescue Trust
The Philips
Search and Rescue Trust provides inter hospital transport of critically ill or
injured patients for specialist medical care, that has included motor vehicle
accidents, aviation accidents, search & rescue, farm accidents and medical
conditions such as asthma, cardiac arrest, etc. The Air Ambulance service is
crewed by St John Ambulance paramedics, hospital doctors and flight nurses.
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Canterbury West Coast Air Rescue Trust
The Canterbury
West Coast Air Rescue Trust has successfully administered an air rescue service
since 1989. Hundreds of people throughout Canterbury and the West Coast have
been successfully flown from accident sites and hospitals to critical care units
throughout the South Island by three main operations - The Westpac Rescue
Helicopter, based in Christchurch, the Solid Energy Rescue Helicopter based in
Greymouth and the
NZ Flying Doctor Service fixed wing aircraft also based in Christchurch
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