Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Yorkshire Ambulance Service
YAS
Logo of Yorkshire Ambulance Service
Area served by Yorkshire Ambulance Service
Created	1 July 2006
Headquarters	Wakefield, England
Region served	Counties of East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire
Area size	6,000 sq miles
Population	5 million
Type	NHS Ambulance Service
Chair	Kathryn Lavery
Chief Exec	Rod Barnes
Website	www.yas.nhs.uk

Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) is the NHS ambulance service covering Yorkshire in England. It was formed on 1 July 2006 following the mergers of the former West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service (WYMAS), South Yorkshire Ambulance Service (SYAS) and Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service (TENYAS). It is one of ten NHS Ambulance Trusts providing England with emergency medical services, free at the point of care and as part of the National Health Service it receives direct government funding for its role.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) serves a population of five million people and employs over 4500 staff and supported by over 1000 volunteers. On an average year, YAS will respond to 700,000 emergency calls and conduct one million patient transport journeys.

YAS's main roles are to:

Yorkshire Ambulance Service covers the metropolitan counties of West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire along with the non-metropolitan counties of North Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The headquarters of YAS is located within the Wakefield 41 Business Park to the north of Wakefield city centre and near to junction 41 of the M1 motorway. There are two Administration Centres, one covering the northern area of the Trust, based in Skelton, York and the other covering the southern area of the Trust, based in Moorgate, Rotherham.

Accident and Emergency operations are divided into the following Clinical Business Units (CBUs) almost conterminous with the geographic boundaries:

The Chief Executive is Rod Barnes who was made substantive in his role in May 2015 and prior to this, was the Interim Chief Executive and Executive Director of Finance and Performance. His background is generally finance-based and he has worked in a number of other NHS provider organisations including Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Great Western Ambulance Service. He began his NHS career at Airedale and Harrogate district hospitals and has held a wide variety of leadership positions.