The<unk>  NHS Trust (EEAST) is an NHS trust responsible for providing National Health<unk>  (NHS) ambulance<unk> s in the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, in the East of<unk>  region. These consist of approximately 6.2million people across an area of . It is one of ten ambulance<unk> s trusts providing<unk>  with emergency medical<unk> s, and is part of the NHS, receiving direct government funding for its role. As well as providing an emergency ambulance<unk> , the trust also provides non emergency patient transport<unk> s, commercial<unk> s and special operations such as emergency planning, and hazardous materials incident response. The<unk>  also support a number of emergency charities, such as air ambulances, who provide doctors for serious incidents. The trust controls the mobilisation of critical care charities throughout its area. These include Magpas (HEMS), Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (HEMS), East Anglian Air Ambulance (HEMS), BASICS Essex Accident Rescue<unk>  (BEARS), Suffolk Accident Rescue<unk>  (SARS), Norfolk Accident Rescue<unk>  (NARS), and BASICS Hertfordshire. The<unk>  can also, if required, mobilise London's Air Ambulance and even the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance if there is a major incident requiring more than one critical care team, and where other teams in the region are operating at maximum capacity. The trauma teams are dispatched by a critical care paramedic and dispatcher at the critical care desk, housed in the Tactical Operations Centre based at Chelmsford AOC, who filter through every call the ambulance<unk>  receives, interrogates it and makes a clinical decision on whether to dispatch a critical care resource.
East of England Ambulance Service
Isle of Man Ambulance Service
SA Ambulance Service
Local medical committee
Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service
Region of Durham Paramedic Services
Prison healthcare
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance