North West Ambulance Service

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS) has a workforce of over 6000 staff, operating its emergency services from ambulance stations distributed across Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside, three Emergency Operations Centres, one support centre, and two Hazardous Area Rescue Team centres. In addition, the Trust provides the NHS 111 Service for the North West region and the Patient Transport Services for most of the area.

Our operational area covers a population of approximately 7.5 million people over five counties. We respond to patients across a geographical footprint of approximately 5,400 square miles. NWAS is the largest ambulance service in the UK receiving over 1.4 million emergency calls per year, with telephone based clinicians and emergency crews attending to more than 1.2 million incidents each year (2017/18).

Our NHS 111 service is the largest in the UK taking over 1.5 million calls each year. Patient Transport undertakes over 1.2 million non-emergency patient transport journeys each year. NWAS also forms part of the NHS response to Major Incidents, ensuring that plans are in place to provide a comprehensive response to major incidents, risks, or hazards.

These services are enabled by teams covering workforce, finance, digital, estates, fleet, project management, patient safety, patient experience, legal and many more ensuring that we provide the right care, at the right time, in the right place; every time.

NWAS has a core Research & Development (R&D) Team that is led by Consultant Paramedic, Steve Bell, and consists of Research Manager, Sandra Igbodo, Research Support Officer, Jesse Oliver, and NIHR Research Paramedics, Adam Wright and Michelle Waddington.

For more information, please visit NWAS website.

Contact details

If you’re interested in working with NWAS, please email us at research.development@nwas.nhs.uk