Three London’s Air Ambulance supporters visited our helipad last week in celebration of winning the charity’s lottery.
Bromley resident Edward Powell, Ruislip resident Winifred Beresford and Bexleyheath resident Rita Bernard won the top weekly prize of £1,000 earlier this year. They got to stand at the top of The Royal London Hospital where the city’s emergency medical helicopter service is based.
Our single helicopter was able to deliver our advanced trauma team to treat a patient in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 18 April due to our recent extension to our daylight flying hours.
For the first time in our history we will fly longer hours during the summer months. From 29 March 2015, the start of BST, until 2 September, we are now able to deliver our advanced trauma team to critically injured people in London via helicopter every day until sunset.
Marius Rehn started his career as a winch man in the Royal Norwegian Air Force “hanging from aircraft like a tea bag on a wire and picking up people we couldn’t access otherwise.” Now a Senior Researcher currently on secondment at London’s Air Ambulance, Marius aims to facilitate collaborative research projects between us and the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation. We talked to Marius about the differences between working in London and Norway, from the weather to number of people per helicopter.
On Sunday 8th March, 70 teams took to the streets of London to take part in the Tower Powerhouses: 5km Family Challenge in order to raise money for our charity and Historic Royal Palaces. This event was the first of its kind for London's Air Ambulance and was a huge success. Teams started off at the Tower of London, where they collected their first clue and set off on their 5km walk around the City of London, searching for clues and answers to facts about the history of London.
UPDATE: Our 'Your London, Your Helicopter' campaign in 2015 successfully raised the funds required to purchase our charity's second helicopter, G-LNDN. Thank you to everyone who contributed to and supported the campaign.
London’s Air Ambulance treated 1806 patients in 2014. The charity has today released its mission statistics for 2014 in a bid to raise awareness.
Key statistics include:
London’s Air Ambulance held a special reception at No.11 Downing Street where the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, backed our campaign to raise £6 million for a new helicopter.
The event, co-hosted by CEO Graham Hodgkin and MP Mary Macleod followed on from our charity’s launch of the ‘Your London, Your Helicopter’ campaign and was a further opportunity for London’s Air Ambulance to recognise its invaluable supporters.
A revolutionary new mobile app and EE’s 4G network are 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. Developed by mobile app developer Mubaloo and EE, the UK’s most advanced digital communications company, the app increases emergency dispatch efficiency by automatically providing London’s Air Ambulance trauma teams with incident information via EE 4G to help them reach patients quicker than ever before.
UPDATE: Our 'Your London, Your Helicopter' campaign in 2015 successfully raised the funds required to purchase our charity's second helicopter, G-LNDN. Thank you to everyone who contributed to and supported the campaign.
