NSW Ambulance Advisory Board

Providing advice to the Health Secretary

The NSW Ambulance Service Advisory Board role is to provide advice to the Health Secretary in relation to the exercise of functions in the provision of ambulance services. The first meeting of the new Board was held on the 20th February 2019 and I am proud to be part of this new Board.

The first recognised ambulance service in New South Wales, known as the Civil Ambulance and Transport Brigade, commenced operations on 1 April 1895. The first ambulance station was a borrowed police station in Railway Square, Sydney staffed by two permanent officers. Patients were transported on hand-held stretchers and handlitters.

Over 100 years on, we now employs over 3,700 staff, operates from 266 different locations across the State, boasts over 800 ambulances, 300 support vehicles, four fixed wing aircraft and tasks nine helicopters.

The people of New South Wales can be justifiably proud of the ambulance service they have built, and the dedicated men and women who continue the traditions of excellence in pre-hospital care.