NPAS is still all about providing "a National Service delivered locally, that is more effective / efficient" and saves money
Saving money? Yes. More effective and efficient? definitely not.
Conversation with NPAS Dispatch the other night:
Hello, got a job for you. Such and such force want a helicopter
What's the job?
Don't know. They've just said they want an aircraft.
What's the talkgroup?
Don't know.
Got a postcode?
Standby