Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
Ambulancia colectiva
English translation:
Patient transport ambulance
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Feb 27, 2019 09:35
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Spanish term
Spain
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Argentine, Standard-Spain) 
Works in: English to Spanish
Ambulancia colectiva
Spanish to English
Medical
Medical (general)
Ambulancias
Dear PROZ Community,
Could you please help me to translate "ambulancia colectiva" into English?
Las ambulancias colectivas se encuadran dentro de las ambulancias no asistenciales o también llamadas ambulancias convencionales. Se trata de vehículos destinados al transporte colectivo de pacientes y están acondicionadas para el traslado conjunto de enfermos cuyo traslado no reviste carácter de urgencia, ni estén aquejados de enfermedades infecto-contagiosas.
A diferencia de las Ambulancias Individuales (A1) esta clase de vehículos, también conocidos como A2, tienen una capacidad de hasta 8 pacientes sentados. No obstante, su versatilidad y amplitud permite añadir una camilla, por lo que el número de pacientes sentados serían 7 más el paciente en camilla.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Kind regards,
Mercedes.
Could you please help me to translate "ambulancia colectiva" into English?
Las ambulancias colectivas se encuadran dentro de las ambulancias no asistenciales o también llamadas ambulancias convencionales. Se trata de vehículos destinados al transporte colectivo de pacientes y están acondicionadas para el traslado conjunto de enfermos cuyo traslado no reviste carácter de urgencia, ni estén aquejados de enfermedades infecto-contagiosas.
A diferencia de las Ambulancias Individuales (A1) esta clase de vehículos, también conocidos como A2, tienen una capacidad de hasta 8 pacientes sentados. No obstante, su versatilidad y amplitud permite añadir una camilla, por lo que el número de pacientes sentados serían 7 más el paciente en camilla.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Kind regards,
Mercedes.
Proposed translations
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| 4 +4 | Patient transport ambulance |
Charles Davis
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| 4 | Collective ambulance |
neilmac
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| 4 | non-emergency ambulance/ambulette |
philgoddard
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Proposed translations
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Patient transport ambulance
This refers to a non-emergency ambulance, like a minibus, not equipped to give medical treatment en route and used to carry several patients between non-urgent healthcare facilities and home.
"Las ambulancias colectivas se encuadran dentro de las ambulancias no asistenciales o también llamadas ambulancias convencionales. Se trata de vehículos destinados al transporte colectivo de pacientes y están acondicionadas para el traslado conjunto de enfermos cuyo traslado no reviste carácter de urgencia, ni estén aquejados de enfermedades infecto-contagiosas."
https://www.ambulanciascivera.com/tipos-de-ambulancias/ambul...
"Patient transport ambulance – A vehicle, which has the job of transporting patients to, from or between places of medical treatment, such as hospital or dialysiscenter, for non-urgent care. These can be vans, buses or other vehicles."
http://www.asu.org.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance#Functional_types
You don't need to put "collective". A patient transport ambulance is always collective (otherwise it would be effectively a taxi).
"Las ambulancias colectivas se encuadran dentro de las ambulancias no asistenciales o también llamadas ambulancias convencionales. Se trata de vehículos destinados al transporte colectivo de pacientes y están acondicionadas para el traslado conjunto de enfermos cuyo traslado no reviste carácter de urgencia, ni estén aquejados de enfermedades infecto-contagiosas."
https://www.ambulanciascivera.com/tipos-de-ambulancias/ambul...
"Patient transport ambulance – A vehicle, which has the job of transporting patients to, from or between places of medical treatment, such as hospital or dialysiscenter, for non-urgent care. These can be vans, buses or other vehicles."
http://www.asu.org.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance#Functional_types
You don't need to put "collective". A patient transport ambulance is always collective (otherwise it would be effectively a taxi).
Note from asker:
| Thank you very much for such detailed explanation. Kind regards, Mercedes. |
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Collective ambulance
In my area of Spain, they seem to be simply called collective ambulances:
Types of Ambulance - Ambulancias en Valencia, Castellón y Alicante
https://www.ambulanciascivera.com/en/types-of-ambulance/
Collective Ambulance. Collective ambulances is a type of ambulance that fits within non-medical ambulances or also called conventional ambulances.
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Another option could be "community ambulance":
Community Health Worker Defies Culture and Encourages Women to ...
uzazisalama.com/.../community-health-worker-defies-culture-and-encourages-women...
Aug 3, 2017 - ... mHealth platform, to other CHWs residing in Marti, a nearby town, who then called a community ambulance that took the mother to hospital
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I don't recall now where I found the references for "collective ambulance", but there are also plenty for "community ambulance" - understood as performing the function described by Charles below in his answer.
PressReader - Wexford People: 2017-01-31 - Flying doctors land in
https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/wexford-people/20170131/...
Jan 31, 2017 - Mr Kearney set up the Cork-based charity Irish Community Rapid Response a decade ago to deliver a community ambulance service which is ..
Types of Ambulance - Ambulancias en Valencia, Castellón y Alicante
https://www.ambulanciascivera.com/en/types-of-ambulance/
Collective Ambulance. Collective ambulances is a type of ambulance that fits within non-medical ambulances or also called conventional ambulances.
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Note added at 32 mins (2019-02-27 10:07:51 GMT)
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Another option could be "community ambulance":
Community Health Worker Defies Culture and Encourages Women to ...
uzazisalama.com/.../community-health-worker-defies-culture-and-encourages-women...
Aug 3, 2017 - ... mHealth platform, to other CHWs residing in Marti, a nearby town, who then called a community ambulance that took the mother to hospital
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Note added at 7 hrs (2019-02-27 17:28:29 GMT)
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I don't recall now where I found the references for "collective ambulance", but there are also plenty for "community ambulance" - understood as performing the function described by Charles below in his answer.
PressReader - Wexford People: 2017-01-31 - Flying doctors land in
https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/wexford-people/20170131/...
Jan 31, 2017 - Mr Kearney set up the Cork-based charity Irish Community Rapid Response a decade ago to deliver a community ambulance service which is ..
Example sentence:
Dublin where there is a "high level of risk" associated with a lack of collective ambulance capacity
The collective ambulance organizations officially recog nized
Note from asker:
| Thank you very much! |
Peer comment(s):
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Charles Davis
: Hi Neil. "Collective ambulance" seems to be a translation of "ambulancia colectiva"; the Google results are not numerous and all seem to come from Spain.
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Well, other references I didn't bother posting were from English language newspapers.
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non-emergency ambulance/ambulette
I must admit I've never heard of an ambulette, but that's just my ignorance, as it gets 900,000 hits! So it's a valid answer, though "non-emergency ambulance" would be my first choice..
"However, it varies by jurisdiction as to whether a non-emergency patient transport vehicle (also called an ambulette) is counted as an ambulance. These vehicles are not usually (although there are exceptions) equipped with life-support equipment, and are usually crewed by staff with fewer qualifications than the crew of emergency ambulances."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance
"However, it varies by jurisdiction as to whether a non-emergency patient transport vehicle (also called an ambulette) is counted as an ambulance. These vehicles are not usually (although there are exceptions) equipped with life-support equipment, and are usually crewed by staff with fewer qualifications than the crew of emergency ambulances."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance
Peer comment(s):
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Charles Davis
: Ambulette is OK for US but not for UK (which is presumably why we've never heard of it). "Non-emergency ambulance" normally applies to a service rather than a vehicle.
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