The support of both the Ararat Rural City and Northern Grampians Shire councils has been welcomed by Mr Leach, who said both councils had assisted Ambulance Victoria develop recruitment packs to promote the region to prospective employees.

"People have been showing interest in the positions because of information in these recruitment packs,'' Mr Leach said.

Ambulance Victoria chief executive officer Greg Sassella said nothing had changed from the service's original plan to recruit 11 new paramedics during this financial year in the Grampians region.

"So far we've got three appointed and two soon to be appointed and that will be done before the end of this year,'' Mr Sassella said.

The paramedics are allocated to a specific branch, be it Ararat, Stawell or Horsham, and work from them on a relieving basis.

Staff are relocated to branches as required when other paramedics are on leave, which Mr Sassella said ensured the ambulance service always had the region covered.

Mr Sassella said recruitment is a challenge which exists in ambulance services both nationally and internationally.

"The expansion which has occurred over the last two years in regional and metropolitan ambulance services means paramedics have a lot of choice,'' Mr Sassella said.

With demand high, paramedics have the option of locating themselves to be nearer to their families, to schools or closer to areas on the coast.

Mr Sassella said priority was given to the Grampians region for the introduction of resources.

"They're getting the resources quicker and that's because we've put the priority on the Grampians because we thought it had the greatest need,'' Mr Sassella said.

On top of the additional paramedics, Mr Sassella believed the region would greatly benefit from the increased Ambulance Victoria's helicopter fleet.

In addition to a helicopter based at Essendon Airport dedicated to medical retrieval, the service has a helicopter based at Bendigo and will be introducing a primary response helicopter to be based at Warrnambool.

Mr Sassella said Victoria boasted the largest helicopter fleet in the country based on the size of the state, and considered the coverage would be up with the best in the world.

"(The helicopters) are designed to give people in rural and regional areas access to regional hospitals or metropolitan trauma centres really quickly,'' Mr Sassella said.

"Our focus on regional Victoria is really strong and compared to other states...access is probably better than anywhere else in the county,'' Mr Sassella said.