Hospital allowed to receive night time flights for patients needing emergency care.
What will they think of next....?
Remind me if ever I come back to Britain to only have a heart attack during the day.... Over-regulation gone awry me thinks....
Hospital allowed to receive night time flights for patients needing emergency care
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust is delighted to announce that its planning application to vary the flight restrictions on the helipad at Queen Alexandra Hospital has been approved.
The Trust sought permission from Portsmouth City Council to vary the flight restrictions on the helipad to meet the changing, and future, health needs of patients in Portsmouth and the surrounding areas. On Wednesday 14 September the council’s planning committee granted permission for the helipad to allow urgent patients to arrive by helicopter between the hours of 6pm and 10pm, and for the allowance of night time arrivals when it is an emergency.
Richard Jones, Chief of Medicine, said “We are delighted with the city council’s decision today. The main reason for opening the helipad at night is to get major heart attack patients to the cardiac unit as quickly as possible to receive angioplasty treatment. By allowing us to change the landing restrictions on the helipad at Queen Alexandra Hospital more people will have access to our services and we will be able to save more lives.”
Previous planning permission for use of the helipad was between 8am and 6pm, or from dawn to dusk, whichever is the shorter.