Great Western Air Ambulance Charity called to more children and teenagers in 2021 than ever before

Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) has announced that 2021 was its second busiest year on record. The Critical Care Team received a total of 1,964 call-outs to incidents across the region which includes Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, and parts of Wiltshire.

EAAA’s first female doctor retires after 14 impactful years in the air

Dr Pam Chrispin is retiring from East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) after 14 years with the life-saving charity and an incredible forty-year-medical-career.

New defibrillator for Kingsbridge installed at Devon Air Ambulance Shop

Devon Air Ambulance has installed a potentially life-saving defibrillator outside the Kingsbridge charity shop in a bid to help save lives.

Reliance on Scotland’s Air Ambulance Charity soars in high demand year

Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) has recorded its busiest ever year as the country emerged from lockdown with an increased demand for the life-saving service. 

Professor Jonathan Benger receives CBE in New Year Honours

Great Western Air Ambulance Charity’s (GWAAC) founding Clinical Director, Trustee, and Critical Care Doctor, Professor Jonathan Benger, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.

Ageas announces Air Ambulance UK as its new charity partner

Ageas UK, one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK has chosen Air Ambulances UK as its charity partner for 2022 – helping the UK’s national air ambulance charity to save even more lives.

Win tickets to the National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals by donating to Air Ambulances UK

Virgin Red, Virgin’s rewards club, is running a special fundraising competition to raise money for Air Ambulances UK AND give four lucky winners the chance to win tickets to see The National Lottery’s ‘Big Night of Musicals’ from the Virgin Red Room at Manchester’s AO Arena on 24th January. 

Vicki Brown, Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care, Breaks Barriers

Vicki Brown, Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care at Great Western Air Ambulance Charity, has become the first person in the country to be registered on the Faculty of Pre Hospital Care (FPHC) Register of Consultant (Level 8) Practitioners by qualifying from a purely, paramedic background.

AAUK AND THE UK CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY IS REMINDING DRONE PILOTS TO SHARE THE SKY SAFELY THIS CHRISTMAS

Air ambulance charities across the UK are expected to collectively fly around 1,000 lifesaving air ambulance missions during December and that's why AAUK and the CAA are reminding drone users that it is vitally important to share the sky safely over the Christmas period by following the CAA's drone regulations.

PRESTIGIOUS NATIONAL AIR AMBULANCE AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The winners of the Air Ambulances UK Awards of Excellence 2021 have been announced today! Find out which of the UK's air ambulance charity clinical crews, pilots, patients, teams, fundraisers and volunteers received awards at the special virtual ceremony.