The Wildrose Party is asking that Alberta Health Services address basic problems with their ambulance system.

Livingstone-Macleod MLA Pat Stier says he would like to see changes made that were recommended in the Rural Health Report that came out last March.

"We believe in what the Rural Health Report had recommended by not firstly allowing those rural ambulances that are coming into the major centres to be delayed in the transfer of their patients over to the hospitals that are receiving."

He says he would also like to see rural ambulances return home after they have dropped off their passengers.

"To require those units to be returned to their local areas, rather than being redirected under the failed central dispatch model.  It was something they started years ago, around 2007-2008, and it has not worked well since."

Stier says areas can be left uncovered for hours because units have been misdirected. He says there's another change he hopes for in accordance with the Rural Health Report.

"To reinstitute the vehicles that are required to do non-emergency patient transfers rather than using full-time regular EMS ambulances, when their primary function should be for emergency needs only and not for those non-emergency trips."

Stier says the AHS has ignored the suggestions of a very good report that was done by the government last year that involved all of the key professionals in the area of concern.