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Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom provide emergency care to people with acute illness or injury and are predominantly provided free at the point of use by the four National Health Services of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Emergency care including ambulance and emergency department treatment is free to everyone, regardless of immigraton or visitor status.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Am I entitled to NHS treatment when I visit England? )〕 The NHS commissions most emergency medical services through the 14 NHS organisations with ambulance responsibility across the UK (11 in England, 1 each in the other three countries), although there is both subcontracting to, and direct commissioning of, private and voluntary ambulance services to respond to some calls. As with other emergency services, the public normally access emergency medical services through one of the valid emergency telephone numbers (either 999 or 112).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NHS ambulance services )〕 In addition to ambulance services provided by NHS organisations, there are also some private and volunteer emergency medical services arrangements in place in the UK, including all air ambulances (except those operated by the Scottish Ambulance Service), the use of private or volunteer ambulances at public events or large private sites, and as part of community provision of services such as community first responders. ==Role of the ambulance services== Public ambulance services across the UK are required by law to respond to four types of requests for care,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ambulance Service Definition ) 〕 which are: * Emergency calls (via the 999 or 112 system) * Doctor's urgent admission requests * High dependency and urgent inter-hospital transfers * Major incidents Ambulance trusts and services may also undertake non-urgent patient transport services on a commercial arrangement with their local hospital trusts or health boards, or in some cases on directly funded government contracts,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NHS Ambulance Trusts Description )〕 although these contracts are increasing fulfilled by private and voluntary providers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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