I'm surprised no-one else has highlighted
this yet:
"Published on Friday 9 December 2011 10:47
An air ambulance service helping to save the lives of seriously ill children across the country is set to take flight next year thanks to a new partnership with the owner of the Derbyshire Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance (DLRAA).
The Children's Air Ambulance charity will provide a national bespoke service from 2012 after being taken over by The Air Ambulance Service.
The umbrella organisation's takeover will enable the charity to carry out a transfer service transporting ill children to hospitals quickly to receive life-saving treatments.
Nicola Howkins, from the Children's Air Ambulance, said: "We are delighted to be joining forces and taking this wonderful opportunity to achieve our long-held operational goals."
Alongside the charity, The Air Ambulance Service also runs the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance (WNAA) and its sister service, Derbyshire Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance(DLRAA).
Both services are among the busiest in the country answering more than 220 life-saving missions each month.
Andy Williamson, WNAA CEO, said: "As the busiest air ambulance in the country, we know how important it is for patients to receive the highest standards of specialist medical care. There are hundreds of critically ill children every year who need the advanced care and time critical transfers to specialist children's hospital units.
"Getting a child to a specialist care centre by land can involve long and frequently medically challenging travel times putting a child at risk while causing untold stress to the family.
"In taking over The Children's Air Ambulance we will not only be able to make this air transfer service an operational reality but also increase survival by helping to reduce travel times and move specialist NHS clinical teams with the child quickly."
The Children's Air Ambulance, which was registered as a charity in 2005, will operate from Coventry Airport, the WNAA base. For more information on the Children's Air Ambulance, visit www.childrensairambulance.co.uk."
...made for an interesting excuse to go back through this thread. Still, with the busiest Air Ambo organisation in the country on board, what could possibly go rwong? P'raps they've finally found something a 169 can be useful for..