EMAS provides emergency 999 and urgent care for the 4.8 million people within Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire (including North and North East Lincolnshire), Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire
We employ over 4,000 staff at more than 70 locations, including two control rooms at Nottingham and Lincoln - the largest staff group are those who provide accident and emergency responses to 999 calls
We also provide a patient transport service in Derbyshire and Northamptonshire, on average provding care during 20,000 journeys
We operate a fleet of around 683 vehicles including emergency ambulances and fast response cars
Every day we receive around 2,215 calls from members of the public calling 999 - this is the equivalent of receiving a 999 call every 39 seconds of every day
During 2019/2020 we received 1,067,061 emergency and urgent calls. Our accident and emergency crews responded to 712,857 of these calls, which equates to 1,948 face-to-face responses every day
Our Clinical Assessment team consists of paramedics, nurses, midwives, and mental health practitioners. They dealt with 183,170 calls during 2019/2020, providing clinical advice to patients and signposting them to services and places where alternative, more appropriate care can be provided
We receive valuable assistance from many community first responder (CFR) schemes providing emergency cover mainly in all the areas we service; circa 1,400 individual CFRs. There are currently over 3,020 community public access defibrillators in strategic locations across the East Midlands
Our 'Big 3' vision: "Responding to patient needs in the right way, developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, and collaborating to improve wider healthcare"
On 17 July 2019 the Care Quality Commission confirmed EMAS is rated 'Good' overall and 'Outstanding' for caring following an April/May 2019 inspection. The full report can be accessed via the CQC website