From the linked article:
They also pioneered the UK’s first night Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) operations to unsurveyed HEMS sites with Babcock pilots flying with specialist night-vision goggles.
(My emphasis, in italics)
I'm pleased they thought to add the qualifier/rider at the end; Wiltshire and Sussex were both operating to unsurveyed HEMS sites at night back in the early 2000s ("noughties"?), but they weren't BabMishCritCock(Unsure) and they weren't using NVG.