An Ambulance Service vehicle used to transport PATIENTS.An Ambulance is an AMBULANCE VEHICLE.

Types of Ambulance are:

• Emergency Ambulance
• Non-Emergency Ambulance
• Patient Transport Service Ambulance.

An Ambulance Call is a SERVICE REQUEST.

An Ambulance Call is a call received into the Ambulance Control Room.

This could be a direct 999 call or a call transferred from another ORGANISATION.

Every call received into the Ambulance Control Room is given a unique AMBULANCE CALL IDENTIFIER.

An AMBULANCE VEHICLE may be dispatched to provide treatment to the PATIENT face to face, with onward transport to a hospital or other destination if required. Alternatively, the PATIENT may be given advice via telephone or video consultation and not require an AMBULANCE VEHICLE response.

For further information on Ambulance Calls, see the NHS England website at: Ambulance Response Programme.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	Ambulance Calls

An Ambulance Control Room is a SERVICE.

An Ambulance Control Room is provided by an Ambulance Service.

An Ambulance Control Room, also known as an Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), is provided by an Ambulance Service and is where 999 calls and calls from CARE PROFESSIONALS are received and triaged.

A call can be a direct 999 call or a call transferred from another ORGANISATION.

AMBULANCE VEHICLES are dispatched from the Ambulance Control Room to respond to PATIENTS.

For further information on the Ambulance Control Room and its functions, see the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives website at: AACE.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
alsoknownas	Emergency Operations Centre (EOC)
plural	Ambulance Control Rooms

An Ambulance Incident is a CARE CONTACT.

An Ambulance Incident is a call to the Ambulance Control Room that, following initial triage, requires a face to face response from the Ambulance Service or can be resolved with telephone advice and any appropriate actions agreed with the PATIENT.

For further information on Ambulance Incidents, see the NHS England website at: Ambulance Quality Indicators.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	Ambulance Incidents

An Ambulance Service is a SERVICE.

An Ambulance Service is a SERVICE provided by an ORGANISATION for the provision of PATIENT transport services.An Ambulance Service is the NHS Trust or NHS Foundation Trust that provides Emergency Ambulance Services for a specific GEOGRAPHIC AREA.

For further information of Ambulance Services, see the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives website at: Structure of the UK Ambulance Services.

The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) is an ORGANISATION.

The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives works with UK Ambulance Services to support, coordinate and implement nationally agreed policy.

For further information on the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, see the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives website at: About AACE.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
shortname	AACE

A Community First Responder (CFR) is a PERSON.

A Community First Responder is a volunteer who is approved by the Ambulance Service to attend certain types of emergency 999 calls in their local community.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
shortname	CFR
plural	Community First Responders

An Emergency Ambulance is a fully equipped emergency Ambulance Service vehicle (car or traditional Ambulance) and fully trained crew, able to treat and transport the PATIENT in a clinically safe manner.An Emergency Ambulance is an AMBULANCE VEHICLE.

An Emergency Ambulance Service is a SERVICE.

An Emergency Ambulance Service is the provision of an emergency SERVICE to PATIENTS following a call to an Ambulance Control Room.

For further information on the Emergency Ambulance Service and integration within the wider health economy, see the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives website at: AACE.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	Emergency Ambulance Services

NHS 111 Service is a SERVICE.

NHS 111 Service is a telephone service for PATIENTS to obtain advice or treatment for their physical or mental health.

For further information on the NHS 111 Service, see the:

• NHS website at: NHS 111
• NHS England website at: NHS 111.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
shortname	NHS 111

A Non-Emergency Ambulance is an AMBULANCE VEHICLE.

A Non-Emergency Ambulance is an equipped liveried Ambulance with a non-emergency ambulance crew trained to carry out the appropriate transport of a PATIENT, following a call from CARE PROFESSIONALS who have requested the transport of a PATIENT within a defined period of time.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
alsoknownas	Double Crewed Ambulance (Non-Emergency Urgent Tier)
plural	Non-Emergency Ambulances

A Patient Transport Service (PTS) is a SERVICE.

A Patient Transport Service is the provision of a non-emergency pre-planned service for PATIENTS to transport them to and from medical facilities for treatment or discharge from hospital

For further information on Patient Transport Services, see the nhs.uk website at: Non-emergency patient transport services.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
shortname	PTS
plural	Patient Transport Services

A Patient Transport Service Ambulance is an AMBULANCE VEHICLE.

A Patient Transport Service Ambulance is an equipped liveried Ambulance with staff trained to carry out the transport of a PATIENT to and from medical facilities for treatment, following a request for non-emergency pre-planned transport from Patient Transport Services.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	Patient Transport Service Ambulances

This item has been retired from the NHS Data Model and Dictionary.A Rapid Response Vehicle is an AMBULANCE VEHICLE.

The last live version of this item is available in the August 2015 release of the NHS Data Model and Dictionary.A Rapid Response Vehicle is a medically equipped liveried car crewed by a clinically qualified member of staff trained to deliver clinical care at the scene of an Ambulance Incident, designed to reach PATIENTS as quickly as possible, following a 999 call.

Access to this version can be obtained by emailing information.standards@nhs.net with "NHS Data Model and Dictionary - Archive Request" in the email subject line.Rapid Response Vehicles can also be used to provide urgent care to lower acuity PATIENTS crewed by a member of staff qualified with advanced clinical skills.

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  • American Society of Anesthesiologists
  • Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
  • Association of Early Pregnancy Units
  • British Association for Paediatric Nephrology
  • British HIV Association
  • British Psychological Society
  • British Transplantation Society
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group
  • Community Health Partnership (Scotland)
  • Community Safety Partnership
  • Data Coordination Board
  • Department for Education
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Department for Work and Pensions Overseas Healthcare Team
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • European LeukemiaNet
  • European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society
  • Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK)
  • GS1
  • Health and Wellbeing Board
  • Health Education England
  • Health Research Authority
  • Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
  • Healthwatch England
  • Human Tissue Authority
  • Adult Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme
  • International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • International Society of Paediatric Oncology
  • Local Health Board (Wales)
  • Local Healthwatch
  • Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
  • National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service
  • National Casemix Office
  • National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training
  • National Contact Point
  • National Information Board
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • National Joint Registry
  • National Kidney Federation
  • Neonatal Data Analysis Unit
  • NHS Business Services Authority
  • NHS Dental Services
  • NHS Digital
  • NHS England
  • NHS Improvement
  • NHS Prescription Services
  • NHS Supply Chain
  • NHS Wales Informatics Service
  • Northern Ireland Local Commissioning Group
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Ofsted
  • Public Health England
  • Royal College of Emergency Medicine
  • Royal College of General Practitioners
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Royal College of Pathologists
  • Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • SNOMED International
  • Sustainable Development Unit
  • The Renal Association
  • The Royal Marsden
  • UK National Screening Committee
  • UK Renal Registry
  • Union for International Cancer Control
  • Youth Justice Board
  • United Kingdom and Ireland Association of Cancer Registries
  • World Health Organisation

Identifies if a PATIENT is required to pay for treatment provided within a particular ACTIVITY or for transport.Identifies if a PATIENT is required to pay for treatment provided within a particular ACTIVITY or for a PATIENT TRANSPORT JOURNEY.

A vehicle dispatched by the Ambulance Control Room to attend a PATIENT.

This class is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
alsoknownas	AMBULANCE RESPONSE
plural	AMBULANCE VEHICLES

A PERSON who has a PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION with a PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION BODY.A PERSON who has a PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION with a PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION BODY or is acting on behalf of a CARE PROFESSIONAL, such as a support worker.

CARE PROFESSIONAL TYPE provides a list of CARE PROFESSIONALS.

A single trip to, or a return from, a place where a PATIENT receives medical care or treatment. If one Ambulance carries six PATIENTS to an Out-Patient Clinic and home again, this would be twelve PATIENT TRANSPORT JOURNEYS.A single trip to, or a return from, a place using Patient Transport Services.

This attribute is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
alsoknownas	AMBULANCE CASE IDENTIFIER
plural	AMBULANCE CALL IDENTIFIERS

Data Elements:

National Codes:

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
alsoknownas	AMBULANCE CASE IDENTIFIER
plural	AMBULANCE CALL IDENTIFIERS

Attribute:

From Commissioning Data Set version 6-2, this data element may be submitted where the PATIENT arrived at hospital by Ambulance, and an Accident and Emergency Attendance or Hospital Provider Spell related to this PATIENT TRANSPORT JOURNEY was recorded.From Commissioning Data Set version 6-2, this data element may be submitted where the PATIENT arrived at hospital by Ambulance, and an Accident and Emergency Attendance or Hospital Provider Spell related to this was recorded.

Attribute:

CARE CONTACT IDENTIFIER (AMBULANCE SERVICE) is an identifier allocated to each Ambulance Incident for each PATIENT.

The PATIENT can have more than one CARE CONTACT IDENTIFIER (AMBULANCE SERVICE) if the PATIENT is treated more than once in separate Ambulance Incidents.

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	CARE CONTACT IDENTIFIERS (AMBULANCE SERVICE)

Attribute:

ORGANISATION CODE (CONVEYING AMBULANCE TRUST) is the code of an Ambulance Service which conveys a PATIENT on a PATIENT TRANSPORT JOURNEY.  A PATIENT JOURNEY NUMBER and AMBULANCE INCIDENT NUMBER may be recorded for the PATIENT TRANSPORT JOURNEY.ORGANISATION CODE (CONVEYING AMBULANCE TRUST) is the code of an Ambulance Service which conveys a PATIENT.

ORGANISATION CODE (CONVEYING AMBULANCE TRUST) will be replaced with ORGANISATION IDENTIFIER (CONVEYING AMBULANCE TRUST), when it has been approved for use in national information standards.

ORGANISATION IDENTIFIER (CONVEYING AMBULANCE TRUST) is the ORGANISATION IDENTIFIER of an Ambulance Service which conveys a PATIENT on a PATIENT TRANSPORT JOURNEY.  A PATIENT JOURNEY NUMBER and AMBULANCE INCIDENT NUMBER may be recorded for the PATIENT TRANSPORT JOURNEY.ORGANISATION IDENTIFIER (CONVEYING AMBULANCE TRUST) is the ORGANISATION IDENTIFIER of an Ambulance Service which conveys a PATIENT.

ORGANISATION CODE (CONVEYING AMBULANCE TRUST) will be replaced with ORGANISATION IDENTIFIER (CONVEYING AMBULANCE TRUST), when it has been approved for use in national information standards.