Saving Time, Saving Lives appeal

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 1 - SAVING TIME SAVING TIME, SAVING LIVES

Celebrating 30 years of London’s Air Ambulance Charity

We launched our fundraising appeal Saving Time, Saving Lives at the start of 2019 to mark our 30th Anniversary campaign. The appeal aimed to raise at least £1 million to redevelop our helipad base at The Royal London Hospital.

In August 2019, we were delighted to announce a funding boost of £1.75 million. The County Air Ambulance Trust’s HELP Appeal, a charity dedicated to funding hospital and air ambulance helipads, donated £250,000. Our charity and Barts Health NHS Trust also received a grant of £1.4 million from The Department of Health and Social Care through its Air Ambulance Capital Funding programme.

This will fund the much needed redevelopment of our helipad base on The Royal London Hospital, provided to us by Barts Health NHS Trust, as well as a package of cutting-edge operational and training equipment. This will enable us to respond to our patients even faster, improve training and make sure our crews have the facilities they need for their mental health and well-being.

Robert Bertram, Chief Executive of the County Air Ambulance Trust said:

“After visiting London’s Air Ambulance’s helipad base, it was clear that improvements were urgently needed to provide far better and more suitable facilities for the doctors, paramedics and pilots who are involved in highly stressful situations on a daily basis. We are proud that we are able to help them create a state-of-the-art facility that will also enable crews to reach critically ill patients even more quickly, helping to save more lives.”

With thanks to the support of The HELP Appeal and The Department of Health and Social Care, we will be able to provide new facilities including: An elevated ready crew room underneath our flight deck and placed closer to the aircraft for faster dispatch, anticipated to save 20-30 seconds off each launch.

Space for pilot and medical team planning.

A quiet space for post-mission debriefs and case analysis.

A “safe space” for on-duty teams to find respite

after challenging missions.

A large training room/simulation theatre for teaching, moulages and kit checks.

A package of operational and training

equipment, including patient ventilators and simulation training aids.

Rest pods for frontline crews.

Additional storage space to house operational, training and major incident equipment.