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How is it organized First Aid service in UK?

I'm an italian Red Cross volonteer and here our ambulances has volonteer rescuers and a professional nurse (so 3-4 people in each rescue team, of course one is the driver). A few ambulances has a doctor in their team: these ambulances are involved only where a people has a very critic conditions.
What's the organization in UK? All teams have a doctor? Are volonteer rescuers involved?
Of course here in Italy ambulances are managed by public service too. Each region has a control room connected with public number "118" (free).

Unfortunatly we haven't yet a universal number (like 112) for asking rescue: at the moment "112" in connected with "Carabinieri" control room, "113" with Police control room, "115" with Fire Department control room and "118" with Emercency First Aid control room.

Public Comments

1. The ambulance service in the UK is a part of the Department of Health, and is fully funded via the Government, through the Dept of Health. It's then organised regionally, with the actual makeup of the local teams varying with what the local population needs. All are paid staff. Usually when attending an emergency the team are trained paramedics, even in the most critical circumstances.

If you'd like more information, try googling "regional ambulance service" on a .uk domain