page_title: Emergency medical services in the Netherlands
section_title: Dispatch
hierarchical_section_title: Emergency medical services in the Netherlands / Standards / Dispatch
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: 25 RAV (Regionaal Ambulance Vervoer) regio's, en 126 ziekenhuizen. Situatie 2008.
context_page_description: Emergency medical services in the Netherlands is a system of pre hospital care provided by the government in partnership with private companies.
context_section_description: All 25 EMS regions in the Netherlands are self-dispatching.  Some regions have more than one centre, but all are interconnected.  The technologies involved in the dispatch of EMS resources are generally equivalent to the American and British standards.  All EMS dispatch centers participate in the national emergency number scheme.  The emergency telephone number for ambulances in the Netherlands is 112. All EMS calls in the Netherlands are nurse-triaged. Triage is conducted using national evidence-based triage protocols and guidelines developed by the Dutch Ambulance Institute. Most dispatch centers use computer-based decision-support systems. As a result of this approximately 30 percent of all requests for service are dealt with by some other means of service at the scene, and in approximately 40 percent of cases, the call is triaged with a result that an ambulance response is avoided entirely.
caption: Dutch EMS Dispatch Regions
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