"NHS ambulance services National Health Service Ambulance Services provide free at the point of use emergency medical care to any person requiring treatment, regardless of immigration or visitor status, within the United Kingdom. These services are provided by National Health Services of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The current system comprises 14 NHS organisations: 11 NHS Trusts cover the separate regions of England and; individual nationwide services cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland respectively. As with other emergency services, the public normally access emergency medical services through one of the valid emergency telephone numbers (either 999 or 112). Additionally,"
"three primary emergency services that can be summoned directly by the public: Emergency services have one or more dedicated emergency telephone numbers reserved for critical emergency calls. In some countries, one number is used for all the emergency services (e.g. 911 in the U.S., 999 in the UK). In some countries, each emergency service has its own emergency number. These services can be provided by one of the core services or by a separate government or private body. These groups and organizations respond to emergencies and provide other safety-related services either as a part of their on-the-job duties, as part"
"appropriate force. The emergency number 999 or 112 should be called in emergencies, when an immediate police presence is needed. These include cases where: A 101 call may be transferred to the 999/112 call handlers if it is deemed to be an emergency. A textphone service is available on 18001 101 for those who are deaf, hard-of-hearing or speech-impaired. All of these calls are routed to a National 101 operator who will determine the correct police force, and introduce the caller to the police operator. The ""Daily Mail"" in December 2014 and ""The Telegraph"" in October 2015 reported on problems"
"there are four emergency services which maintain full-time emergency control centres (ECC), to which 999 emergency calls may be directly routed by emergency operators in telephone company operator assistance centres (OAC). These services are as follows, listed in the order of percentage of calls received: Other emergency services may also be reached through the 999 system, but do not maintain permanent emergency control centres. All of these emergency services are summoned through the ECC of one of the four principal services listed above: First introduced in the London area on 30 June 1937, the UK's 999 number is the world's"
"for prompt emergency service. Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and any agency or entity to which the FCC delegates such authority to designate 911 as the universal emergency telephone number within the United States for reporting an emergency to appropriate authorities and requesting assistance. Applies such designation to both wireline and wireless telephone service. Directs the FCC to provide appropriate transition periods for areas in which 911 is not currently an emergency number. Requires the FCC to encourage and support efforts by States"
"999 was inherited from British rule and continued after independence. The number is attributed more to requesting for the police, with the number 995, established in 1984, used for direct lines to the fire brigade and ambulance services of the Singapore Civil Defence Force. Because most of the population of Singapore is Chinese, it is likely that 995 was adopted because the Chinese pronunciation for that number (九九五, jiŭ jiŭ wŭ) sounds similar to the Chinese phrase for 'Save me' (救救我, jiù jiù wŏ). The Kingdom of Swaziland uses the 999 emergency number for police contact only. Also 975 for"
"emergency services telephone numbers, such as 911 and 999, report receiving many false alarms that are likely a result of pocket dialing. These nuisance calls can result in a drain on operators' time, particularly during summer months, which is possibly due to an increase in roller-coaster ridership. As many as 50% of emergency calls may be accidental calls. On many older phones in the United States, pushing and holding down the number '9' key will cause the phone to automatically dial 911. In many regions, the operators must spend time and resources to determine whether the call is real or"
"card. Some people have reported accidentally dialling 112 by loop-disconnect for various technical reasons, including while working on extension telephone wiring, and point to this as a disadvantage of the 112 emergency number, which takes only four loop disconnects to activate. Southern California Telephone Co. began using 116 as an emergency line for Los Angeles, California in 1946. The emergency number 999 was adopted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1959 at the urging of Stephen Juba, mayor of Winnipeg at the time. The city changed the number to 911 in 1972, in order to be consistent with the newly adopted"
"emergency (as well as some non-emergency) services, such as: Most citizens only know the ""190"" (Military Police) number for emergencies, but ""192"" (ambulance), ""193"" (firefighters) and ""199"" (civil defense) are also commonly known. Usually a call to 190 (military police) describing an emergency with a non-criminal nature will be redirected to the proper number or provide assistance if they are qualified to (as in cases of choking children). By law, ""136"" is printed on the packaging of all tobacco products sold in Brazil, so it is usually thought to be just a smoking cessation help hotline. That hotline does exist"
"9-1-1 9-1-1, also written 911, is an emergency telephone number for the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), one of eight N11 codes. Like other emergency numbers around the world, this number is intended for use in emergency circumstances only, and using it for any other purpose (such as making false or prank calls) is a crime in certain jurisdictions. In over 98% of locations in the United States and Canada, dialing ""9-1-1"" from any telephone will link the caller to an emergency dispatch office—called a public-safety answering point (PSAP) by the telecom industry—which can send emergency responders to the caller's"
"U.S. emergency number. Because of the design of U.S. central office (phone) switches, it was not practical to use the British emergency number 999 (as was briefly considered). What was up to that time unassigned area code 911 was chosen instead. The ""1"" as the second digit was key; it told the switching equipment that this was not a routine call. (At the time, when the second digit was ""1"" or ""0"" the equipment handled the call as a long distance or special number call.) The first 911 emergency phone system went into use in Haleyville, Alabama in 1968. On"
"number for emergency services throughout Hong Kong is 999, just as in Britain. All 999 calls are answered by the Hong Kong Police Force. If an ambulance is the only response required, the call is passed directly to Hong Kong Fire Services dispatchers. If the call information is complex, as with a traffic accident, the police dispatchers will notify the ambulance service when they suspect that ambulances might be required. Both ambulances and fire apparatus are co-dispatched by the Hong Kong Fire Service dispatchers. The system operates technologies and decision support software that are approximately equivalent with those found in"
"the United States is 9-1-1. The number works for all three emergency services. In most cases, a 9-1-1 call will be answered at a central facility, usually referred to as a Public Safety Answering Point, and operated, in most cases, by the police. The needs of the caller are identified, and the call is routed to the dispatcher for the emergency service(s) required. While some small communities continue to use 'low-tech' approaches to dispatch, in many places in the U.S. the technology is quite advanced. Advanced technologies in use may include electronic mapping, Global Positioning System (GPS) or its first"
"for emergencies include: In many countries, emergency numbers previously used also continue to be available; e.g. 061 and 112 in Spain, 999 and 112 both function in Ireland and the UK. In the United States, only some carriers, including AT&T will map the number 112 to its emergency number 9-1-1. 112 is managed and financed in the European Union by each member state (country), who also decide on the organization of the emergency call centres. The number is also adopted by candidates for EU accession and members of the EEA agreement. The International Telecommunications Union recommends that member states selecting"
"Brigade as well, whereas the call will be again diverted. The number is accessible from any part of the island on all telephone and cellular networks. The 1-1-9 in Maldives is a direct-dial free emergency number that connects the caller to the national police (Maldives Police Service). 119 (emergency telephone number) 119 is the emergency telephone number in parts of Asia and in Jamaica. 119 is a direct-dial emergency number for fire brigade and ambulance service operated by the National Emergency Management Agency. The caller's location is automatically traced once the call is connected, and operators who can speak English,"
"the police, ambulance services, fire and rescue services, and the Coastguard. A number of additional emergency services make use of the ECC of one of the four full-time services; for example, mountain rescue are contacted through police ECCs, and the lifeboat service is contacted through Coastguard ECCs. Types of centralised control have been in use since the beginning of emergency services in Britain, but the first to respond to the 999 number was in 1937 in the London area. Prior to this time there were assorted basic means of communication with centralised control, including operations rooms with telephones, maps, direct"
"Emergency telephone number In many countries the public switched telephone network has a single emergency telephone number (sometimes known as the universal emergency telephone number or the emergency services number) that allows a caller to contact local emergency services for assistance. The emergency number differs from country to country; it is typically a three-digit number so that it can be easily remembered and dialed quickly. Some countries have a different emergency number for each of the different emergency services; these often differ only by the last digit. ""See List of emergency telephone numbers."" The emergency telephone number is a special"
"human trafficking reports. The other emergency numbers in use are 977 for emergency medical assistance and 933 for the fire service. In Trinidad and Tobago, 999 is used to contact the police only. The number 990 is used for the ambulance service and fire brigade. 999 (emergency telephone number) 999 is an official emergency telephone number in a number of countries which allows the caller to contact emergency services for urgent assistance. Countries and territories using 999 include Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Ghana, Hong Kong, Kenya, Macau, Malaysia, Mauritius, Qatar, Ireland, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, Seychelles, the"
"days a year, 4 PM to 8 PM Eastern Standard Time. Unfortunately, the NINELINE is currently unavailable The toll-free telephone number was (800) 999-9999 (thus, it earned the nickname ""the Nineline""). Covenant House previously ran commercials on radio and TV telling people in need of its services to ""call 1-800 and then just keep pressing 9"". The National Runaway Safeline (NRS) is available at 1-800-RUNAWAY to assist at-risk youth and their families. Its mission is to help keep America's runaway, homeless and at-risk youth safe and off the streets. Volunteer staff provide solution-based support and have access to a resource"
"service – this is called a ""misrouted nines"". The most common reason for this is when a mobile phone calls 999 and is using a radio transmitter that is located in another force area; most frequently these are calls that are made within a few miles of a border. Upon establishing the incident location, the emergency service operator will relay the information to the responsible force for their dispatch. In most areas, other forces will respond to incidents just within the border if they could get there quicker, assist, and then hand over to the other force when they arrive."
"fire departments access to the source location of emergency calls. Enhanced 911 is currently deployed in most metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada, and Mexico as well as all of the Cayman Islands. In the US, the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999, also known as the 911 Act, mandated the use of E911 and designated 911 as the universal emergency number, including both wireline and wireless phone devices. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has made several requirements applicable to wireless or mobile telephones: Location information is used by the wireless network operator to determine to"
"9-1-1 (Philippines) 9-1-1 is the national emergency telephone number for the Philippines. It is managed by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and is also referred to by its official name, Emergency Network Philippines (ENP). On August 1, 2016, the new emergency hotline 911 along with the public complaint hotline 8888 began to deploy nationwide, replacing 117. Prior to the inception of 117, emergency services were reached through a myriad of telephone numbers. The fire department in Manila, for example, had fifty telephone numbers, one for every fire station in the city. At the time, 117 was"
"1 July 1937 using the number 999, and this was later extended to cover the entire country. When 999 was dialled, a buzzer sounded and a red light flashed in the exchange to attract an operator's attention. Because of loop disconnect dialing, attention was devoted to making the numbers difficult to dial accidentally by making them involve long sequences of pulses, such as with the UK 999 emergency number. That said, the real reason that ""999' was chosen is that the preferred ""000"" and ""111"" could not be used: ""111"" dialing could accidentally take place when phone lines were in"
"to respond coherently). Unlike many emergency number services, the 119 system in Japan only services fire and ambulance services. Police are called using a separate emergency number, 110. Operators proficient in English and other foreign languages are available in Tokyo. 119 is recognized in China as the standard emergency telephone number for firefighters. Similar to Japan, the number for police is 110. Ambulance is available with the number 120. 119 is recognized in Taiwan as the emergency telephone number for firefighters and ambulance services. As in Japan, the number for police is 110. The 1-1-9 emergency response system was established"
"Premium rate services 0xx - International access code 13xx - Voicemails 1777 - Non-emergency ambulance 16xx - Service providers' customer services 18xx - International calling card access numbers 993 - Ministry of Health's special ambulance service - previously used for suspected cases of H1N1 and SARS 995 - Singapore Civil Defence Force - Fire or Emergency Ambulance 999 - Police This is the list of telephone exchanges in Singapore. They also share the telephone exchanges with OpenNet locations, cable TV and '6'-regoed phone lines (each from SingTel and StarHub). The generic international call prefix when making an international call is"
"driver discretion for Category 3/4 calls; this may be dependent on the type of call or how long it has been waiting for a response for. 999 calls to the ambulance service are triaged using either the NHS Pathways system or the Medical Priority Dispatch System. The use of flashing lights and sirens is colloquially known as ""blues and twos"" which refers to the blue lights and the two-tone siren once commonplace (although most sirens now use a range of tones). In the UK, only blue lights are used to denote emergency vehicles (although other colours may also be used"
"format, such as 911 (United States and many parts of Canada), 999 (United Kingdom), 112 (Europe) and 000 (Australia). The majority of mobile phones also dial the emergency services, even if the phone keyboard is locked, or if the phone has an expired or missing SIM card, although the provision of this service varies by country and network. In addition to those services provided specifically for emergencies, there may be a number of agencies who provide an emergency service as an incidental part of their normal 'day job' provision. This can include public utility workers, such as in provision of"
"and can be accessed by this number, but ""136"" is actually a more comprehensive contact channel between citizens and the Ministry of Health. In 2013, a law was approved that added two new numbers, 112 and 911, to mimic the emergency numbers from European countries and United States, respectively. A call to those numbers is redirected to the same lines as 190. The law was made because of the large number of foreign tourists expected for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, so the redirecting numbers were initially reachable only from the"
"alert trains to the emergency and to stop them if necessary. The instructions on the signs then state 999 should then be dialled and that the Police should be requested. Access to the 999/112 service is provided for the hearing-impaired via Textphone and use of the Text Relay service, run by BT to cover all telephone providers, and previously known as the RNID ""Typetalk"" relay service. The number is 18000. 999 is also accessible via SMS for pre-registered users. The service is open for anyone to register and works with all major providers in the UK. It is important for"
"location in an emergency. In approximately 96 percent of the U.S., the enhanced 9-1-1 system automatically pairs caller numbers with a physical address. In the Philippines, the 9-1-1 emergency hotline has been available to the public since August 1, 2016, although it was first available in Davao City. It is the first of its kind in Asia-Pacific region. It replaces the previous emergency number 117 used outside Davao City. As of 2017, a 9-1-1 system is in use in Mexico, where implementation in different states and municipalities is being conducted. 999 is used in Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, the"
"use the same codes. For example, the emergency telephone number is not always 911: Trinidad and Tobago and Dominica use 999, as in the United Kingdom. The country of Barbados uses 211 for police force, 311 for fire, and 511 for ambulance, while Jamaica uses 114 for directory assistance, 119 for police force, and 110 for fire and ambulance services. Despite its early importance as a share of the worldwide telephone system, few of the NANP's codes, such as 911, have been adopted outside the system. Determining that 911 requires unnecessary rotation time on rotary dial telephones, the European Union"
"Enhanced 9-1-1 Enhanced 911, E-911 or E911 is a system used in North America to automatically provide the caller's location to 911 dispatchers. 911 is the universal emergency telephone number in the region. In the European Union, a similar system exists known as E112 (where 112 is the emergency access number) and known as eCall when called by a vehicle. An incoming 911 call is routed to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), a call center operated by the local government. At the PSAP, the call is answered by a specially trained official known as a 9-1-1 dispatcher. The dispatcher's"
"situation will depend strongly on the situation, the patient involved and availability of resources to help them. It will also vary depending on whether the emergency occurs whilst in hospital under medical care, or outside medical care (for instance, in the street or alone at home). For emergencies starting outside medical care, a key component of providing proper care is to summon the emergency medical services (usually an ambulance), by calling for help using the appropriate local emergency telephone number, such as 999, 911, 111, 112 or 000. After determining that the incident is a medical emergency (as opposed to,"