15 Jul 2025
In May 2025, our team of expert medics – who are here for London 24/7, 365 days a year – treated 169 patients.
Thanks to our fleet of helicopters and rapid response cars, we can get to the patient’s side within minutes of injury, when every second counts. These individuals are so seriously injured they don’t have time to get to hospital – instead we perform complex medical procedures on scene, to save lives where others can’t.
Treating these patients included administering 22 rapid sequence intubations, 18 blood transfusions and 17 arterial lines, alongside many other potentially life-saving interventions. We were also able to offer ECMO on the roadside – a UK first for patients in cardiac arrest. You can read more about this pioneering launch here.
We attend every borough in London and can reach anywhere within the M25 in 11 minutes. In this month, it was the borough of Hackney that we visited the most, followed by Brent, Southwark and Tower Hamlets.
Once the patient has been stabilised on scene, it’s most common for our crew to accompany them in a road ambulance to the nearest major trauma centre. This month, 55 patients were taken to The Royal London Hospital (43.7 per cent), 26 patients were taken to King’s College Hospital (20.6 per cent), 22 to St George’s Hospital (17.5 per cent) and 18 to St Mary’s (14.3 per cent). One patient was flown to The Royal London, which is a very rare occurrence – in the entire year of 2024, we only flew 16 patients.
During May, assault was the mechanism of injury that resulted in the largest number of patients – 36 (21 per cent). Medical-related injuries resulted in 25 patients (15 per cent), transport-related injuries 24 (14 per cent) and accidents and falls both 18 (11 per cent each). There were also 48 patients who had other or unknown injuries (28 per cent), which include industrial accidents and burns.
In the UK, traumatic injury is the biggest killer of people under 40. But on the worst day of someone’s life, our medics are here to bring hope to the patient and their loved ones. As a charity, 95 per cent of our funding is reliant on people like you. Can you support us today, to help us be there tomorrow?