Queensland Ambulance Service

The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) is the chief provider of out-of-hospital emergency care and ambulance transport in the state of Queensland, Australia. It falls under the control of the Queensland government's Department of Community Safety and is the fourth-largest ambulance service in the world.

The service provides a high level of emergency care and transport services to over 4.1 million people in Queensland, covering an area of 1.77 million square kilometres. They provide such services as emergency response, pre-hospital patient care, specialised transport services, coordination of aero-medical services and inter-hospital transfers.

Approximately 2,780 paramedics are employed by QAS, who deliver their services from over 260 response locations across the state. In 2005/06, the service handled 746,275 cases, of which 536,227 were emergency cases and 210,048 were non-emergency cases. In the same period, QAS trained 63,092 first aiders.