I don't think it's a manning or training issue, I have made numerous approaches to them since the project was first muted with regards to providing cost effective in house training / or providing professional helideck staff and never received a reply. Several years ago I was told by one of the hospital fire officers that he had never been included in the consultation, design or building of the project and subsequently wanted nothing to do with it. I was delivering a Helideck training course at a London hospital recently and was in discussion with a colleague about SCH and he had been told by a contact at SCH that it was possibly because the CEO does not want it opened in case it increases casualty overload into the ED!!! How true that is I don't know but whatever the reason it is a travesty that this facility is not being used.
Last edited by FC1; 15th Jun 2022 at 09:28.