This is more than a middle management matter involving rewriting a couple of policies that will be filed and never seen again. It is a top level matter about resources and how safe we want our country to be.
Around here, air ambulance flying started in about 1931. 705 Sqn FAA forever stamped the helicopter as tool for saving lives into the imagination of the British people on 31st January 1953. RAF SAR helicopters started operating from RMB Chivenor in 1956. FAA dedicated SAR helicopters started operating from RNAS Culdrose in 1974. Helicopter SAR ops were normal in the district when the current Derriford Hospital site was opened in 1981. Cornwall Air Ambulance started operations in 1987.
Just how stupid do you have to be to stick your head in the sand and imagine that aviation and emergency medicine will not be inextricably linked forever?
NHS management stupid.
Local authority stupid.
Government minister stupid.
We need to stop giving important jobs to stupid people.