Table 2 Number of ambulances, operating hours, assignments and kilometres driven. In total and per inhabitant, by regional health enterprise. 2006

2	Number of ambulances, operating hours, assignments and kilometres driven. In total and per inhabitant, by regional health enterprise. 2006

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	525	87 509	528 378	29 029 638	9	0.97	113	55
Helseregion Øst	115	15 932	183 201	8 217 726	5	0.49	108	45
Helseregion Sør	85	12 541	100 752	5 422 858	8	0.72	111	54
Helseregion Vest	103	15 431	104 259	4 859 335	9	0.83	108	47
Helseregion Midt-Norge	94	17 457	69 731	4 707 232	12	1.39	107	68
Helseregion Nord	128	26 148	70 435	5 822 487	24	2.94	152	83

¹	Both ambulances operating 24 hours and ambulances operating less than 24 hours are included in the figure.