Statistics Norway

Specialist health service, ambulance service

2 Number of ambulances, operating hours, assignments and kilometres driven. In total and per inhabitant, by regional health enterprise. 2007
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 84 022  547 725 29 212 168 9 1  116 53
Helseregion Sør-Øst 2  201 28 295  289 832 13 689 896 6 1  110 47
Helseregion Vest  103 16 683  111 762 4 971 933 8 1  114 44
Helseregion Midt-Norge 93 17 119 71 673 4 665 345 12 1  109 65
Helseregion Nord  128 21 926 74 458 5 884 994 24 2  161 79
1  Both ambulances operating 24 hours and ambulances operating less than 24 hours are included in the figure.
2  From 2007, after the fusion of Helse Sør RHF and Helse Øst RHF to Helse Sør-Øst RHF.

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