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Meet our new Medical Director
MEET OUR NEW...
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
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Dr Tom Hurst is a Bart’s Health Consultant in Pre-Hospital Care with London’s Air Ambulance and a Consultant in Intensive Care medicine at King’s College Hospital.
He trained in Manchester before undertaking a secondment to London’s Air Ambulance in 2008. Tom was Clinical Lead at East Anglian Air Ambulance from 2011 to 2014 and the sub-speciality lead for training in pre-hospital emergency medicine in London from 2014 to 2019.
Tom’s appointment follows the departure from the Medical Director role of Dr Gareth Davies, who stepped down in 2019 following the end of his tenure as Trustee to the Board of Directors. Gareth held the role from 1996–2019 and remains a Consultant in pre-hospital care with the service.
“It was a huge honour to be appointed to the role of Medical Director and to build on the incredible work that Dr Gareth Davies has undertaken during his tenure. Gareth has steered London’s Air Ambulance to be a global leader in pre-hospital care and I am privileged to be guiding the service through its next phase.
In 2019/20, we have made progress against our service goals. We have continued to pioneer new procedures and progressed with plans to redevelop the helipad. We have seen the PRU service grow in capacity and scope and we continue to develop our tripartite relationship with Barts Health NHS Trust and London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, to ensure we can provide critically injured patients with the world’s most innovative and cutting-edge pre-hospital care.
This is truly an exciting time for London’s Air Ambulance. Pioneering by nature, we have already begun working with new procedures that have the potential to be transformative for our patients.
There is of course, more to come and more that must be done. Our strategic aim – to reach even more patients, to deliver even more innovative care, remains at our core. I am hugely grateful to all those who have supported me since my appointment, throughout these challenging times. I am deeply proud of the team and humbled to work alongside them”.
