Ally1987, accepting your point my friend that still doesn't justify the lack of coordination and hand to mouth funding of the service throughout the rest of the UK. I know that the chaps in Scotland are not allowed to attend RTAs in the dark as they cannot do night landings at unrecognised sites, however they are more than just a patient transfer service.
I believe the original justification for the service at Inverness was that it had to do the job of 6 road ambulances. Given the widely distributed population and the fact that most small hospitals, of which there are still many, may require a means of rapid transfer to a suitable trauma centre a helicopter is an essential additional tool. An RTA in the highlands, or for that matter a hospital transfer, can require a journey by road of many hours.
I just think it is wrong that these services in the rest of UK are not funded from government, they take enough in taxes they should not rely on peoples charity for vital services.