In the financial year 2002/03 there were over 500,000 responses to accident and emergency calls, and in excess of 2 million non-emergency journeys undertaken, as well as over 2,800 missions flown by the service's air ambulances.
Although the Scottish Ambulance Service covers the whole of Scotland, employing around 3,500 staff operating out of more than 150 locations, it centres emergency call handling at just three Emergen...
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