South Yorkshire Ambulance Service was the NHS ambulance service covering

South Yorkshire South Yorkshire is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. The county has four council areas which are the cities of Doncaster and Sheffield as well as the boroughs of Barnsley and Rotherham. In N ...

, England. On 1 July 2006, it was merged into the new

Yorkshire Ambulance Service Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) is the NHS ambulance service covering most of Yorkshire in England. It is one of ten NHS Ambulance Trusts providing England with emergency medical services as part of the National Health Service it r ...

History

South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service (SYMAS) was formed in 1974, bringing together the individual town and city services which existed across the county. In 1992, it became an NHS Trust, providing 24-hour emergency and healthcare services to more than 1.4million people across the region. Albert Page, who was chief ambulance officer for SYMAS in 1989, testified at the

Hillsborough disaster The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal human crush during a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989. It occurred during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in the ...

enquiry in 2015 that officers on the ground took too long to declare a major incident, and that they did not communicate with the force control room as they should. The public inquiry concluded that the fans were not to blame and that the inaction of the South Yorkshire Ambulance Service contributed to the number of fatalities.

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