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Our current efforts in developing the ambulance service are concentrated in three areas:

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to hive off the remaining non-emergency ambulance services. The Hospital Authority completed taking over all its non-emergency services in October 1995. We are now pursuing the hiving off of the remaining non-emergency caseload, so that the Ambulance Command of the Fire Services Department may focus its resources on emergency ambulance services;

(b) to achieve efficiency improvements in the short term, through a better distribution of ambulance stations, more effective deployment of personnel and similar management initiatives; and

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to seek the additional resources necessary to improve the ambulance services' performance so that we can meet our travel time target on a regular basis.