For the first time in its history, London’s Air Ambulance flew longer hours during summer. From 29 March 2015, the start of BST, until 2 September, the charity delivered its advanced trauma team to critically injured people in London via helicopter every day until sunset.
London Freemasons pledged £2 million for the second helicopter. London Freemasons launched an appeal to its 40,000 members across 1,350 lodges in London to fundraise towards the £2 million target.
The ‘Your London, Your Helicopter’ campaign was launched to raise the funds for a second helicopter.
A life-saving dispatch app was launched with EE, helping London’s Air Ambulance save lives by reducing the time it takes to dispatch the charity’s advanced trauma teams by up to two minutes.
The world’s first pre-hospital REBOA (Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta) was performed. This balloon surgery is used to control severe pelvic bleeding, an injury most commonly associated with cycling incidents and falls from height.
The rapid response cars received a new look. Bringing uniformity to London’s Air Ambulance fleet, the ŠKODA Octavia vRS Estate vehicles sported the same red livery as the helicopter and were emblazoned with the high visibility Battenberg strips required on emergency vehicles.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that London’s Air Ambulance Charity was to receive £1 million to enable the charity to operate a second helicopter.
Image: Photo credit - BBC
Their Royal Highnesses The Earl and Countess of Wessex visited London’s Air Ambulance Charity as part of a tour of two charities supported by the Wessex Youth Trust on the Earl’s 50th birthday. TRH The Earl and Countess of Wessex awarded London’s Air Ambulance Charity a grant for over £10,000.
The Institute of Pre-Hospital Care at London’s Air Ambulance Charity partnered with Barts and the London School of Medicine at Queen Mary University of London to create the UK’s first Intercalated BSc degree in Pre-Hospital Medicine.
Image: The Institute of Pre-Hospital Care’s logo at the time
UK's first Patient Liaison Nurse for trauma patients was appointed, funded by the City of London Corporation's charity, City Bridge Trust.
