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. 2008
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  498 79 509  536 402 28 767 915 8 1  112 54
Helseregion Sør-Øst 2  197 27 720  300 504 14 191 411 6 1  112 47
Helseregion Vest 82 12 570 86 895 4 181 492 7 1 87 48
Helseregion Midt-Norge 94 17 465 73 675 4 614 407 12 1  111 63
Helseregion Nord  125 21 754 75 328 5 780 605 24 2  163 77
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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