TC Quote, "but your HEMS cover per head of population is probably the best in the world "
TC, sorry to burst your bubble, but NZ definitely and Aus probably have far better HEMS coverage per person than 4 helicopters for 2 million people.
Just thinking about Aus, maybe not, although it would be close to 40 machines for 20 million people, although the land area covered is probably a bit bigger... one of the Aussies on here would have to help on that.
In NZ we must have close to 40 HEMS helicopters for 4 million people! and they are all charity organisations, and have the same issues you guys do... every little area the size of cornwall thinks it needs its own helicopter, and we only have 100,000 or so people to fund it... good luck to them all i say.