Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service (TENYAS) was the NHS ambulance service covering the urban areas of Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, York and Hull along with the rural areas of the Yorkshire Dales and Yorkshire Wolds. In total the organisation provided ambulance cover for an area of the size of approximately 4,500 square miles (12,000 km2).[1]

Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service
TENYAS
TypeDefunct NHS Ambulance Service
Established1 April 1999
Disbanded1 July 2006
HeadquartersSkelton, York, England
Region servedCounties of North Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire and Teesside
Area size4,500 square miles

The service was formed on 1 April 1999, as a merger of the former Cleveland, North Yorkshire and the northern half of Humberside Ambulance Services and had 37 ambulance stations within its operating area with the southern half of Humberside Ambulance Service being absorbed by Lincolnshire Ambulance Service. Resources were deployed from the two control rooms situated in Middlesbrough and at ambulance headquarters in Skelton, York known as 'Fairfields'. This building was a purpose built ambulance headquarters, commissioned by the previous incumbent service, North Yorkshire Ambulance Service.

Divisions

Between 1999 and 2003 the service was divided into three divisions:[2]

  • Tees - divisional headquarters in Middlesbrough
  • North Yorkshire - divisional headquarters in Skelton, York (in same building as Ambulance Headquarters)
  • East Yorkshire - divisional headquarters in Hull

Operations were reorganised into four Strategic Business Units (SBUs) in 2003/4:[3]

  • North - covering Teesside
  • Central - covering North Yorkshire
  • South - covering East Yorkshire
  • Access & Response - covering accident and emergency control, Patient Transport Service planning and booking and the GP out of hours call handling.

Demise
Main article: Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Following the 2005 publication of the Taking Healthcare to the Patient: Transforming NHS Ambulance Services report by Peter Bradley CBE, the East and North Yorkshire areas merged with West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service and South Yorkshire Ambulance Service to form Yorkshire Ambulance Service on 1 July 2006, with the Teesside area being absorbed by North East Ambulance Service. The TENYAS headquarters was retained by Yorkshire Ambulance Service as is now known as Administration and Control Centre - North and is still in use today.

References
  1. "Tees, East & North Yorkshire Ambulance Service". 30 January 2004. Archived from the original on 30 January 2004. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  2. "Tees, East & North Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust". 21 June 2002. Archived from the original on 21 June 2002. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  3. "Tees, East & North Yorkshire Annual Report 2004-2005" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2006. Retrieved 9 January 2016.


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