Originally Posted by
Thud_and_Blunder
Pretty sure Scotland is still in the UK, and the HEMS work up there is shared by the government-funded Air Ambulance and the Scottish Charity Air Ambulance. I haven't operated up there since 2015 so I don't know if both are also involved in routine/emergency hospital transfers too.
Scotland is in the UK, but their NHS is a devolved power as is their AA model, not a function of the UK government.
Their SAS model didn’t cover enough of the country and the SCAA took the gaps. When I lived there and suffered an injury that would ordinarily have needed an aircraft, I was just in the wrong part of the country, this is before the SCAA.