Status quo and forecast for the development of emergency medical services based on the Northeast Tyrol supply region

The interactive study report is divided into three sections.

Part 1: Analysis of the current situation in the emergency medical services

Part 2: Patient characteristics

Part 3: Forecast and calculation of demand

Key points of the study:

The number of emergency medical service calls has been rising steadily for years and exceeds the effects expected from demographic change.

Calls with low urgency and involving people aged 65 and over dominate the everyday work of emergency medical services.

One-quarter of all calls involve repeat users, i.e., patients who trigger a call three or more times a year. The peak value for a single patient is 75 calls per year.

The promise to the population that emergency services will be on site in less than 15 minutes can no longer be consistently kept.

A simulation of the development of calls for assistance up to 2030 shows that, despite the high additional use of resources, only a slowdown in the deterioration can be achieved. This means that new resources would be needed on an ongoing basis.

Certified emergency paramedics can play a key role in emergency care thanks to a new job profile. This requires at least 4,000 graduates throughout Austria.

They can be trained at nine universities of applied sciences, which corresponds to an annual funding requirement of €10,000,000.