Kent currently host the means (FCC) by which the 2 aircraft that serve Kent, Essex, Suffolk, Cambs and Norfolk communicate and are tasked. It works very well..... (I wait to be shot down on that comment
)...so at a guess they think they just grow a regional plan into a national one.
West Mercia, Staffs, West Mids, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire are served by 4 helicopters and tasked, on a closest aircraft attends basis, by means of communication between the duty crews.
It works very well.
Given a different time of day, West Mercia, Staffs, West Mids, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire are served by one helicopter tasked by means of telephone/radio call to the duty crew.
It works very well.
Anyway, lets give it a whirl, it might just work;