South Central Ambulance Service

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (or SCAS for short) is part of the National Health Service (NHS). They were established on the 1 July 2006 following the merger of four ambulance trusts in the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire. This area covers approximately 3,554 sq miles with a residential population of over four million (please see map). On 1 March 2012, they became a foundation trust. Their emergency operations centres handle around 500,000 emergency and urgent calls each year.

Their two main functions are:

• the provision of an accident and emergency service to respond to 999 calls
• the Patient Transport Service