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Old 23rd Apr 2021, 08:04
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gipsymagpie
 
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How about combining all the air ambulance charities into one - saves on a lot of CEOs salaries - then have one company provide aircraft, pilots and engineering.

Economies of scale, mutual cross cover, the ability to move 'odd' people to different ponds, standardisation across the board, one or maybe two aircraft types, one AOC - the list goes on.

Sounds a bit like the SAR contract but perhaps that is exactly what is needed instead of this fragmented and inefficient set up we have now.

Put the police air provision into the equation as well and share the funding between Govt and the 'single' charity.
At the risk of sounding like a cynic, isn't that exactly what NPAS was meant to do? Doesn't seem to have worked terribly well.

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