Ambulance Services

Thanks to technology, ambulance services have seen a revolution in working styles.

Using technology they have been able to:

• Command and control centres
• Make the ambulance service much more responsive and efficient
• Replace bad broadcast systems with digital, secure communications
• Use satellite tracking of resources and geographical information
• Analyse where to best position ambulances and emergency serices, in order to reach people quickly and safely.

Previously ambulance services were quite basic. They may not have had large teams in the emergency services. Also When people called for help from the emergency services they would have had to note the address and find it manually. Now they can use Satellite Navigation to easily locate the emergency. They have larger teams, which is good as some can be reading the SatNav, another can be driving and some can be communicating with the victim. Also nowadays if for any reason the victim cannot tell the emergency services the address there is technology to track their address from the telephone line, therefore saving many more lives. The technology in the vehicles is also better and from the base, they can contact members who are in vehicles, which they may have not been able to do before. Evidently there are MANY ways in which evolving technology has helped the emergency services.