South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

welcome to south western ambulance service nhs foundation trust (swasft). we provide a wide range of emergency and urgent care services across a fifth of england covering cornwall and the isles of scilly, devon, dorset, somerset, gloucestershire, wiltshire and the former avon area. our operational area, covering 10,000 square miles, is predominantly rural, but includes large urban areas such as bristol, plymouth, exeter, bath, swindon, gloucester, bournemouth and poole. swasft is the primary provider of 999 services across the south west. we also provide urgent care services across dorset and gloucestershire. the trust employs more than 4,000 staff and we have 96 ambulance stations, three clinical control rooms, six air ambulance bases and two hazardous area response teams (hart).