The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) is the organisation responsible for providing ambulance services for the National Health Service (NHS) across South West England (the counties and unitary authorities of Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, the Isles of Scilly, Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire). On March 1, 2011 SWASFT was the first ambulance service in the country to become a Foundation Trust. The Trust merged with neighbouring Great Western Ambulance Service on 1 February 2013.