The remodelled PRU was launched thanks to funding from Tower Hamlets Together. Previously an eight-hours-a-day, five-days-a-week service, the PRU now responds to 999 calls 12 hours a day, seven days a week, all year round.

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Chris joined the London Ambulance Service in 2003, spending time on operational duties before moving to a management position based at Trust HQ, Waterloo. Chris has a special interest in emergency preparedness and clinical provision at mass crowd events, leading on the London Ambulance Service Medical Response Team, a bespoke team providing critical care in dense crowds and hostile environs in London. Chris is also a Motorcycle Response Unit Paramedic operating in Central London.

Working with Barts Health NHS trust, we began the delivery of a new clinical model to work towards a consultant-led service. A consultant is now present on most clinical missions alongside the duty crew including a doctor and a paramedic, ensuring that patients have the best possible care.

Jason Morris QAM joined London Ambulance Service in 1999, where he has progressed from emergency medical technician to paramedic, through to clinical team leader. He completed his first secondment on London's Air Ambulance in 2009. 

Bob describes himself as an Aberdonian, Trinidadian born, Arsenal supporting water skier and accountant.  Bob’s career with Ernst & Young has been an unusual one (for an accountant), with Bob leading change programmes in sales, major account programmes and marketing. At the moment he is also leading the audit quality programme for his firm. Bob has spent more than 20 years as a partner of Ernst & Young, helping clients like Lotus, Sony and Greene King improve their governance and control.

Frank brings a wealth of clinical experience to the role of patient liaison nurse Frank qualified as an adult nurse in 2003 and went straight into a career in the emergency department of Basildon and Thurrock Foundation NHS Trust. He started working as a staff nurse at the emergency department of The Royal London Hospital, home to the London’s Air Ambulance’s helipad, in 2007 and became a senior charge nurse in 2011.

David Lockey is a consultant at London's Air Ambulance and is on sabbatical until 2020. David formerly was the lead for research and development and served as a trustee of the Charity from 2005 to 2019. He grew up in London and moved to medical school in Newcastle upon Tyne. After graduation he trained in Newcastle, Nottingham, London and Bristol. He also did his intensive care training in Perth, Australia.

Dr Anne Weaver is a Consultant and Medical Director at London’s Air Ambulance. In 2004, she became the first female consultant in emergency medicine and pre-hospital care in the UK. Anne has years of experience in pre-hospital care spanning the UK and Australia. In 2007 she became lead clinician for London’s Air Ambulance and co-founded the first pre-hospital care programme in the UK for medical students. She organises mentoring of the undergraduate medical students by London's Air Ambulance doctors.

Dr Claire Park is a consultant in pre-hospital Care with London’s Air Ambulance and in intensive care and anaesthesia at King's College Hospital.

In addition to years of experience with London’s Air Ambulance, Claire has worked with a number of air ambulances in the South of England, has spent time in the US working with both pre-hospital teams and hospital trauma teams at Shock Trauma in Baltimore and has paediatric retrieval experience with the South Thames Retrieval Service.

Dr Chatterjee has over 20 years of experience in pre hospital care and been with London’s Air Ambulance since 2013. As well as being a Consultant in Pre Hospital Care, he is also a Consultant Anaesthetist at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. He has an interest in head and neck cancer, shared and difficult airway management, as well as thoracic and transplant anaesthesia.