Islanders living in Alderney do not have to take a subscription for ambulance services, the Guernsey ambulance service has said.<\/p>\n
The reminder follows the launch of the 2026 subscription scheme in Guernsey<\/a> after the Ambulance and Rescue Service found that one in four people without one used its services in 2024.<\/p>\n Ambulances in Alderney are paid for through local taxes unlike Guernsey where charges and subscriptions apply, it said.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The service said Alderney islanders were also covered for ambulance call outs when visiting other islands and for use of the Flying Christine III marine ambulance.<\/p>\n Chief Ambulance Officer Mark Mapp said it continued to provided a full time professional ambulance service in Alderney.<\/p>\n He said: “Alderney operates under a different funding model to Guernsey, which means when someone calls an ambulance in Alderney the costs are covered directly by the States of Alderney, through the tax system.<\/p>\n “I know that previously, when the service was purely a voluntary one, people in Alderney were encouraged to donate to cover the operating costs – that changed when Ambulance and Rescue took on the professional operation.”<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Follow BBC Guernsey on X<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>. Send your story ideas to channel.islands@bbc.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n More on this storyRelated internet links