The Children's Air Ambulance has come in to service (see
Children?s Air Ambulance: Critically-ill baby saved thanks to first emergency helicopter for kids - Mirror Online)
It has been a long haul and during that time much has been posted on earlier pages of this forum. In the meantime the work has been going on unabated to provide a bespoke,specifically equipped aircraft.
For those of you who still question the worth of 'The Children's', may I remind you that the 'Sheffield Report' in 1994 doubted the value of HEMS operations. Air Ambulances have come a long way since then.
Time will tell. Perhaps those who doubted will quietly judge the value of the new service over the course of the next year or so. In that time medical and operational evidence will have been gathered and analysed by the Paediatric Intensive Care clinicians and Retrieval teams. Only then can this matter can be discussed with knowledge, not opinion.