Statistics Norway

Spesialized health services. Ambulance services

2   Number of ambulances, operating hours, assignments and kilometres driven. In total and per inhabitant, by regional health enterprise. 2005
Regional health enterprise Number of operating ambulances1 Number of operating hours per week Number of assignments Number of kilometres driven Number of ambulances operating 24 hours per 100 000 inhabitants Number of operating hours per inhabitant Number of assignments per 1 000 inhabitants Number of kilometres driven per assignment
The whole country  529 80 981  496 644 28 330 831 9 0.91  107 57
Helseregion Øst  114 15 143  166 749 8 004 382 5 0.47  100 48
Helseregion Sør 85 12 420 94 633 5 350 196 8 0.72  105 57
Helseregion Vest  104 15 684  100 756 4 860 000 9 0.85  105 48
Helseregion Midt-Norge 94 14 628 65 218 4 421 202 12 1.17  100 68
Helseregion Nord  132 23 106 69 288 5 695 051 25 2.60  150 82
1  Both ambulances operating 24 hours and ambulances operating less than 24 hours are included in the figures.

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