The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) is an integral part of the primary healthcare sector in Queensland through the delivery of timely, patient-focussed ambulance services.
The QAS operates as a statewide service within Queensland Health, and is accountable for the delivery of pre-hospital ambulance response services, emergency and non-emergency pre-hospital patient care and transport services, inter-facility ambulance transport, casualty room services, and planning and coordination of multi-casualty incidents and disasters.
The QAS delivers ambulance services from 296 response locations through 15 Local Ambulance Service Networks (LASNs), geographically aligned with Queensland Health’s Hospital and Health Services’ boundaries.
The QAS has a 16th statewide LASN which comprises of eight operations centres distributed throughout Queensland that manage emergency call taking, operational deployment, dispatch and coordination of non-urgent patient transport services.