We are sad to announce that Jill Williams died on Wednesday 9 September 2020. Jill was a Registered Nurse who became a Nurse Manager responsible for A&E and HEMS and the first Nurse Clinical Director at The London Hospital [later becoming The Royal London Hospital]. She was a Trustee for London’s Air Ambulance between 1997-2010 and more recently, the Chair of the board of directors and trustees at Lucy Air Ambulance For Children Charity [2014-2019].
Jill was part of the founding years of London’s Air Ambulance, when even the notion of the very existence of an air ambulance in the capital was challenged at many levels. It was a time when we were only the second UK Air Ambulance and the first to be independent of an ambulance service and to carry a specially trained doctor. Jill helped secure sponsorship from Virgin and - along with the senior clinicians - helped establish the Doctor and Paramedic team, a model now followed by almost all Air Ambulance Services throughout the UK.
Jill was the UK Aeroplane and Helicopter Air Operator Certificate holder for London’s Air Ambulance for many years. At the time that she started, our SA365N Dauphin helicopter was known as the “London Crusader”. Jill was a major part of the crusade to keep London's Air Ambulance running, and will be dearly missed by those that knew her, but her contribution to the service as it stands today will never be forgotten.
