What is an ambulance service?

An ambulance service includes the treatment paramedics provide to sick or injured people in an emergency and transport to hospital in a vehicle designed to provide emergency care.

Sometimes ambulances are used to transport patients between hospitals.

In Australia, ambulance services use:

• motorbikes
• vans
• four-wheel drives
• buses.

Due to the vast distances, ambulance services also use helicopters and airplanes, especially in rural or remote areas or in certain types of emergencies.