Emergency Medical Services Modelling

Paul Harper, Jonathan Gillard, Vincent Knight, Leanne Smith, Julie Vile, Janet Williams

2013

Abstract

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are facing increasing pressures in many nations given that demands on the service are rising. This paper focuses on the operations of the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST), which provides urgent care services on a day-to-day basis across the whole of Wales. Facing ever-increasing pressures to provide rapid responses, the Trust is keen to develop new initiatives to meet the response time targets set by the government. This article describes work performed at Cardiff University in collaboration with WAST, investigating a range of Operational Research (OR) methods, including computer simulation, to assist the Trust with capacity planning issues and deployment of emergency vehicles and crews.

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in Harvard Style

Harper P., Gillard J., Knight V., Smith L., Vile J. and Williams J. (2013). Emergency Medical Services Modelling . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: HA, (SIMULTECH 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-69-3, pages 549-555. DOI: 10.5220/0004538705490555


in Bibtex Style

@conference{ha13,
author={Paul Harper and Jonathan Gillard and Vincent Knight and Leanne Smith and Julie Vile and Janet Williams},
title={Emergency Medical Services Modelling},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: HA, (SIMULTECH 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={549-555},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004538705490555},
isbn={978-989-8565-69-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: HA, (SIMULTECH 2013)
TI - Emergency Medical Services Modelling
SN - 978-989-8565-69-3
AU - Harper P.
AU - Gillard J.
AU - Knight V.
AU - Smith L.
AU - Vile J.
AU - Williams J.
PY - 2013
SP - 549
EP - 555
DO - 10.5220/0004538705490555