AMBULANCE VICTORIA 2010-2011 ANNUAL REPORT

2010-2011 2009-2010 2008-2009 2007-2008 2006-2007
Adult Retrieval 7
Cases handled 3,592 3,038 3,030
Retrievals 8
Road retrievals - paramedic only 155 146 457
Road retrievals - doctor & paramedic 360 145 160
Total road retrievals 515 291 617
Air retrievals - paramedic only 975 937 794
Air retrievals - doctor & paramedic 414 284 173
Total air retrievals 1,389 1,221 967
Total adult retrievals 1,904 1,512 1,584
Code 1 Response Time 9
Percentage of responses within 15 minutes 77.1% 80.7% 82.4% 82.0% 85.7%
Centres with population > 7,500 10 82.8% 86.9% 88.7% 87.9% n/a
Patients Transported
Road transports (Metropolitan Region) 11
Emergency Operations 254,233 242,456 227,709 225,305 217,066
Non-Emergency Operations Stretcher 143,176 137,257 138,124 138,970 132,883
Total Stretcher 397,409 379,713 365,833 364,275 349,949
Non-Emergency Clinic Transport Services 81,054 76,334 70,473 66,192 69,368
Total Metropolitan region 478,463 456,047 436,306 430,467 419,317
Road Transports (Rural Region)
Total Rural regions 155,054 154,957 150,815 150,537 139,894
Total Patients Transported by Road 633,517 611,004 587,121 581,004 559,211
Air Transports (All Regions)
Fixed Wing transports 4,536 4,383 4,606 4,194 4,432
Helicopters
Helicopter (HEMS 1 Essendon) 398 393 488 510 557
Helicopter (HEMS 2 Latrobe Valley) 379 359 394 354 352
Helicopter (HEMS 3 Bendigo) 272 315 369 326 330
Helicopter (HEMS 4 Warrnambool) 4 159 135
Helicopter (HEMS 5 Retrieval) 5 474 393 117
Helicopter (Docklands) 6 19 50 35
Total Helicopter 1,682 1,595 1,387 1,240 1,274
Total Air Transports 6,218 5,978 5,993 5,434 5,706
Total Patient Transports 639,735 616,982 593,114 586,438 564,917
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