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The London Air Ambulance, also known as the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS), is an air ambulance which responds to seriously ill or injured casualties in and around London, England. Download high resolution version (939x704, 255 KB)The London Air Ambulance, G-EHMS, an MD-902 helicopter. ...
Download high resolution version (939x704, 255 KB)The London Air Ambulance, G-EHMS, an MD-902 helicopter. ...
Kings College Hospital, Ruskin Wing Kings College Hospital first opened in 1840 close to Lincolns Inn Fields and within two years was treating 1290 inpatients in 120 beds. ...
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Formed in 1989 and currently based at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, the service is unique in the UK in that the helicopter carries a doctor trained in emergency medicine in addition to a paramedic. Its area of responsibility is London and the surroundings that lie within the M25 motorway, though it can fly further afield if requested to. The team can be airborne within 2 minutes of receiving a call. From its hospital base, the furthest section of the M25 and thus the usual limit of responsibility, is only 12 minutes flying time. The service operates from 7am until sunset, when the helicopter cannot fly due to safety considerations. At night the medical crew still respond to emergencies, but travel in a specially fitted and equipped response car. The aircraft is hangared at Denham during the night. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Part of the front of the Royal London Hospital The Royal London Hospital, formerly the London Hospital, is a hospital in Whitechapel, London. ...
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A paramedic is an Emergency medical technician certified to the highest level of training and responds to medical and trauma emergencies in the pre-hospital setting (in-field) for the purpose of stabilizing a patients condition before and during transportation to an appropriate medical facility, usually by ambulance. ...
London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom(coming from Roman Londinium ). An important settlement for around two millennia, London is today one of the worlds most important business and financial centres, [1] and its involvement in politics, culture, education, entertainment, media, fashion, sport and...
The M25 motorway looking south between junctions 14 and 15, near Heathrow Airport. ...
Denham is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. ...
The current helicopter used is a McDonnell Douglas MD 902 Explorer, registration G-EHMS, which is notable as it does not use a tail-rotor. This was felt to be a useful feature, as the helicopter has to routinely land in confined inner city areas. It replaced a SA 365N Dauphin in 2000, that was deliberately registered G-HEMS. A DC-10, a McDonnell Douglas airplane design McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. ...
This Cessna 150 displays the registration G-AVIT. The G- prefix denotes that it is registered in the United Kingdom. ...
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The service costs £1.4 million a year, and £1,200 every mission, but is only partly funded by the NHS. The remainder is obtained through charitable donations and corporate sponsorship, most notably by the Virgin Group and the AA. The charity also runs a weekly lottery to raise funds for the service. {{redirect|NHS} The logo of the NHS for England. ...
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By the end of December 2004, 2,576 patients had been brought back to the Royal London by air and 341 by road. 830 were flown to other hospitals, 2,508 were medically escorted to other hospitals by road, and 2,431 had been treated and transferred unaccompanied. 85 tertiary patients had been flown to the Royal London, 280 secondary air transfers had been made to other hospitals.
The crew is usually 1 pilot, 1 co pilot, 1 doctor and 1 paramedic. There is sometimes an observer, who is a doctor or paramedic in training. The helicopter can carry two patients on stretchers.
The service is featured heavily in the BBC TV series Trauma. The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ...
HEMS Clinical Director is Dr Gareth Davies. He, along with other members of the team helps to run London's Air Ambulance. Gareth is also an Accident & Emergency and Pre-hospital Care Consultant working at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel and regularly flies in the helicopter to the scenes of accidents. Dr Gareth Davies (born 10 March 1965) is an Accident & Emergency and Pre-hospital care consultant working from the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. ...
 HEMS Clinical Director Dr Gareth Davies Dr Davies has been responsible for many innovations in pre-hospital care such as the Physician Response Unit (PRU) which brings the doctor to the patient in their home, preventing an unnecessary waste of ambulance resources. Image File history File links Dr-Gareth11891. ...
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See also
Other emergency medical services The Great North Air Ambulance (GNAA) is a British charity based in Cumbria, England. ...
The London Ambulance Service (LAS) is the largest ambulance service in the world that does not directly charge its patients for its services. ...
A Beech KingAir of the Australian Royal Flying Doctor Service. ...
Other emergency services Her Majestys Coastguard is the agency of the government of the United Kingdom concerned with co-ordinating rescue at sea. ...
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) provides fire fighting and rescue services in London, UK. It is the third largest fire department in the world with nearly 7000 staff. ...
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