Air Ambulance Week Takes-off Across the UK

Air Ambulance Week 2022 takes off across the UK from is 5th – 11th September, with air ambulances across the country delivering the vital message that air ambulances act in Critical Moments to make a Lifesaving Difference. to raise awareness of the lifesaving work of air ambulance charities across the UK, conveying key messages that air ambulance crews act in Critical Moments to make a Lifesaving Difference.

Air Ambulance Week is the only week in the year dedicated to raising awareness andfunds for the vital lifesaving work of air ambulance charities and is organised by AirAmbulances UK, the national charity supporting the lifesaving work of the UK’s airambulance charities, enabling them to save even more lives every day.

Air ambulance crews bring the Emergency Department to patients who have suffereda life threatening or life changing trauma or medical emergency; providing specialistcritical care to save lives.

On average an air ambulance can reach someone in urgent need within 15 minutes.Anyone, anywhere in the UK can become a patient at any time. Air ambulance charitiesare collectively dispatched to over 100 lifesaving missions each day across the UK;each mission is funded almost entirely by the generosity of local communities.

The average mission cost is £3,000; however, the cost varies depending on geography,patient need, clinical and operational models of the local air ambulance charity.

To show your support for Air Ambulance Week, you can make a one-off donation to AirAmbulances UK by visiting https://www.airambulancesuk.org/air-ambulance-week-2022/. Alternatively, you can get in direct contact with your local air ambulancecharity.

Your support, however large or small, will make a lifesaving difference.

Air Ambulance Week Fact Finder

- There are 21 individual air ambulance charities in the UK, which provide pre-hospitalcare support to the NHS and form an important part of the UK’s frontline emergencyservices

- There are 37 air ambulance helicopters operated across the 21 individual airambulance charities

- Air ambulance charities collectively are dispatched to over 100 lifesaving missionsevery day – that’s over 30,000 a year

- The average cost of an air ambulance mission is around £3000 and each one is fundedalmost entirely by donations. The average mission cost is £3,000. The cost variesdepending on geography, patient need, clinical and operational models of the local airambulance charity

- Around 68% of all air ambulance charity lifesaving missions are to people who arecritically injured in incidents such as road traffic collisions, falls, workplace incidentsand sporting or leisure accidents

- About 32% of missions are to people with a sudden medical emergency

- Among the most frequent type of lifesaving missions are to people seriously injured inroad traffic collisions and those experiencing a sudden cardiac-related medicalemergency