Helihub/nodrama;
since you're on to me, and not trying to be too political, the workload for 4 helicopters (soon to be 5) in the East of England simply isn't there. On a good day (bad for some) there may well be only 4 to 6 taskings requiring a medical team. If this was a commercial operation I think I would look at slimming the numbers down. In addition, there are some lovely Sea Kings sitting at RAF Wattisham and around the U.K. that are more than capable of providing a transport platform to any specialist peaditric transfer team to pretty much any place in the U.K. so why would we need another airframe to do this?
Personally I would advocate closer involvement of SAR helicopters with civilian HEMS operations so that instead of air ambulance operations ending when the sun goes down or the weather is below limits, we can provide a 24/7 all weather service. As the SAR service is about to go all civilian (last minute hitch with SAR-H permitting) it makes sense to me to integrate services rather than keep popping out new air ambulances for every specialist group of patients--what next, equestrian air ambulance????