South Yorkshire Ambulance Service

South Yorkshire Ambulance Service
SYAS
NHS corporate identity logo for SYAS
Created	1 April 1974
Disbanded	1 July 2006
Headquarters	Moorgate, Rotherham, England
Region served	County of South Yorkshire
Area size	600 square miles
Population	1.4 million
Type	Defunct NHS Ambulance Service

Moorgate,

South Yorkshire Ambulance Service was the NHS ambulance service covering South Yorkshire, England. On 1 July 2006 it was merged into the new Yorkshire Ambulance Service.

South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service 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 1.4 million people across the region.

Albert Page, who was chief ambulance officer for SYMAS in 1989, testified at the Hillsborough disaster 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.