Falck operates ambulance services in Belgium

23-Dec. 2005

Belgian ambulance company Ambuce Rescue Team has agreed to a strategic partnership with the Danish Emergency and Rescue company Falck, the largest ambulance operator in Europe.

Ambuce, founded in 1975, covers around a third of the Belgian population and operates in the regions of Antwerp and Limburg in Flanders in Northern Belgium. The joint ambulance service will be branded Falck Ambuce.

100 vehicles

Ambuce has a fleet of about 100 vehicles, two-thirds of which are ambulances stationed at 11 bases (“Falck stations”) in the regions. In addition, the company has a control centre, which dispatches all urgent patient transports ordered by the Hospitals and other non urgent patient transport operations. Ambuce undertakes also acute first responds emergency ambulance services (the 100 service) dispatched by the Public Alarm centres.

Platform for continuing growth

“With this investment in Ambuce, we have achieved one of the goals we set last year, i.e. to roll out our competencies in the field of ambulance services and operations in a new European country. Ambuce is the right platform for our continuing growth in the Benelux countries”, comments Allan Søgaard Larsen, President and CEO of Falck.

With the entry into the Belgian market, Falck will be operating ambulance services in five countries: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland and Belgium. In total, Falck has about 800 ambulances at its disposal, and it is the only international ambulance company in Europe.

Press Release 23 December 2005