15 Sep 2025
In July 2025, our expert team of doctors and paramedics treated 169 patients in London.
We get to a patient’s side within minutes of injury, in time to make a difference by performing complex medical care on scene. Treating this month’s patients included administering 36 general anaesthetics, 23 blood transfusions, 22 arterial lines, three thoracotomies (open chest surgeries) and more potentially life-saving procedures.
We also had four ECAT (Endovascular Cardiac Arrest Team) shifts in the month of July: dispatching our ECMO capability to be there for someone with cardiac arrest in London. This is a vital intervention (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), which temporarily takes over heart and lung function in patients who aren’t responding to standard resuscitation. You can read more about the launch of our ECAT team here.
We can fly anywhere within the M25 in 11 minutes and we serve every borough in London. This month we attended to Newham the most, followed by Enfield.
After we’ve stabilised the patient on scene, we usually accompany them in a road ambulance to the nearest major trauma centre. We took 60 patients (43.8 per cent) to The Royal London Hospital, 40 patients (29.2 per cent) to St Mary’s Hospital, 19 (13.9 per cent) to King’s College and 15 (10.9 per cent) to St George’s. Two patients were flown back to The Royal London, which is incredibly rare: in the first six months of 2025 we only flew three patients back.
The most common mechanism of injury in July was assault, which resulted in 51 patients (27 per cent). Falls resulted in 35 patients (19 per cent), transport-related injuries 28 (15 per cent), medical-related injuries 26 (14 per cent) and accidents 17 (nine per cent). There were also 32 patients who had other or unknown mechanisms of injuries, which includes burns and industrial accidents.
We’re here for London, today, tomorrow and always. But this is only possible with your support – we’re a charity with 95 per cent of our funding reliant on donations. Can you support us, to ensure we can bring hope to every emergency?