West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service

West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service
WYMAS
NHS corporate identity logo for WYMAS
Non-NHS corporate identity logo for WYMAS
A WYMAS ambulance outside a hospital in Leeds
Created	1 April 1974
Disbanded	1 July 2006
Headquarters	Birkenshaw and then Wakefield, England
Region served	County of West Yorkshire and the Craven area of North Yorkshire
Type	Defunct NHS Ambulance Service

West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service, or 'WYMAS', was the NHS ambulance service covering West Yorkshire and the western side of North Yorkshire. On 1 July 2006 it was merged to the single Yorkshire Ambulance Service.

West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service was formed in 1974, bringing together the individual city services which existed across the county. In 1992, it became an NHS Trust, providing 24-hour emergency and healthcare services to more than 2.1 million people across the region.

WYMAS covered the whole of West Yorkshire, including the cities of Bradford, Leeds, and Wakefield, and the principal towns of Halifax, Huddersfield and Pontefract. In addition, WYMAS' coverage extended into the Craven area of North Yorkshire with ambulance stations at Grassington, Ingleton, Settle and Skipton, covering the western side of North Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Dales. The region included parts of the M1, A1(M), M62, M621 and M606 motorways, and West Yorkshire itself is highly industrial.

Neighbouring ambulance services covered Greater Manchester, Lancashire, North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.