15 Sep 2025
In August 2025, our team – who serves London 24/7, 365 days a year – attended to 199 patients. This is 30 more patients in comparison to the previous month.
Treating these patients at scene – as our main role is to bring complex medical care to the roadside when there’s no time to get to hospital – involved administering 31 rapid sequence intubations (which is used to induce someone into a coma), 24 blood transfusions, 25 arterial lines, four thoracotomies (open chest surgery) and other potentially life-saving procedures. Some of these treatments only our crew can perform on scene in London.
We also had five ECAT shifts during August, providing people suffering cardiac arrest in London a chance at survival.
We can fly to anywhere within the M25 in 11 minutes and have attended to every borough of London. This month, we were dispatched to Westminster the most, followed by Brent and then Tower Hamlets.
Once we have stabilised the patient on scene, we usually accompany them to the nearest major trauma centre in a road ambulance. This month we took 56 patients to The Royal London Hospital (38.1 per cent), 48 patients to St Mary’s (32.7 per cent), 24 to King’s College (16.3 per cent) and 17 to St George’s (11.6 per cent). We flew two patients to hospital during August, which is more than usual.
Assault was the mechanism of injury that occurred the most in this month: resulting in 49 patients (25 per cent). Transport-related injuries resulted in 36 patients (18 per cent), falls 34 patients (17 per cent), medical-related injuries 28 (14 per cent) and accidents 27 (14 per cent). There were also 25 patients who had other or unknown mechanisms of injury, which includes industrial accidents and burns.
Treating these individuals on the worst day of their lives is only possible thanks to public support – we’re a charity, with 95 per cent of our funding reliant on donations. Can you donate today, so we can bring hope to every emergency tomorrow?