Summary
Bosses at the West's main ambulance service are in talks to merge with another region because they are too small to comply with the Government's radical NHS reforms. The Great Western Ambulance Service, which covers Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and the former Avon area, will have to pair up with another ambulance service to become a new NHS Foundation Trust - something ministers are insisting on - by 2013.
The service covers 2.3 million people and last year responded to more than a quarter of a million 999 calls. But its size, population and call-outs make it the smallest in the country.See the full content of this document
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