Welcome to the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust Website

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) was established on 1 April 1995 under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and the (Establishment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995, thereby becoming a regional service.

The function of the NIAS is ‘to manage ambulance, patient transport and communication services provided from ambulance control centres’. Our mission is to ‘deliver effective and efficient care to people in need and improve the health and well-being of the community through the delivery of high quality ambulance services'.

The NIAS responds to the needs of a population in Northern Ireland in excess of 1.7 million people in the pre-hospital environment. It employs 1044 staff operating from ambulance stations/sub stations, Regional Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre (based at Headquarters), Regional Non-Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre (based at Altnagelvin) and the Regional Ambulance Training Centre which is based at the Ambulance Headquarters site.