10 Feb 2026
In December 2025, our crew – who use their specialist skills and unmatched experience to save lives where others can’t – treated 186 patients.
Bringing complex medical care to the roadside, treating these individuals included administering 41 rapid sequence intubations, 37 arterial lines, 16 blood transfusions, three thoracotomies (open chest surgery) and more potentially life-saving procedures.
Once the patient has been stabilised, the usual process is for the team to accompany them in a LAS road ambulance to the nearest major trauma centre. In this month, 57 patients were taken to The Royal London Hospital (39.9 per cent), 33 patients were taken to St Mary’s (23.1 per cent), 30 patients to King’s College (21 per cent) and 18 to St George’s (12.6 per cent). No patients were flown back to hospital, as this isn’t our primary role on scene.
Assault was the most common mechanism of injury in December, resulting in 45 patients (24 per cent). Transport-related injuries resulted in 34 patients (18 per cent), falls 29 patients (16 per cent), medical-related injuries 28 (15 per cent) and accidents 20 (11 per cent). There were also 30 patients who had other or unknown mechanisms of injury (16 per cent), which include burns and industrial incidents.
We attend to anywhere within the M25, serving all of London 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Lambeth was the most attended borough in this month, followed by Islington and then Southwark and Westminster.
Trauma doesn’t stop, but with your support, neither will we. Can you donate to our charity today, so we can be there for someone tomorrow?