Great North Air Ambulance.......

[Flaxton Flyer]

Capt. T -


"I believe WYAA also relocated to Bagby to cover top end of Yorks and coast"

Small but important point - There is no West Yorkshire Air Ambulance. The Yorkshire Air Ambulance covers the whole county and the Airdesk will task the Teesside-based Northumbria Air Ambulance (oops sorry Great North Air Ambulance...) into Yorkshire as and when required.

The Bagby base was set up some time before GNAA's current woes, in order to get quicker response to the outlying areas of the county.

FF

[scottishbeefer]

What's the remit?

Since there's some obvious expertise posting here - what's the line in the sand for Air Ambulance ops? I attended a job in the Lakes area recently (last 6 months) to find an air ambo had already lifted and shifted 5 MRT onto the hill.

SB

[jayteeto]

No willy waving SB, I am just about to transfer from police to Ambo and if we are on scene first and we can help to speed things up, we will. Subject to rules of course. There is no desire to replace SAR, just as you would take one of our patients to hospital if we were a distance away

[Fortyodd2]

Minself,
"I guess that's what happens when those that make critical decisions in AA charities have a limited background in aviation and make poor decisions in the hope "it'll be awright" because everyone will bend over backwards to bridge the problem brought about by their inadequacies".

Delete "AA charities" and insert "Police Aviation" and you are still correct!

[timex]

No GNAA this afternoon, so casevac done by Police Heli..

[Barshifter]

Timex

"No GNAA this afternoon, so casevac done by Police Heli.. "

Dauphin was on task in Cumbria this afternoon(Sun).

[timex]

Apparently went U/S later on....

[peterprobe]

They can get used to that, Dauphin great machine in it's day, but HEMS ?? nah

[QTG]

"They can get used to that, Dauphin great machine in it's day, but HEMS ?? nah"


And that's the problem - marvellous aircraft the Dauphin, but for HEMS - I don't think so. Even worse than the 109!

[wallsend]

Unfortunately "GNAA" seems to stand for "Got No Air Ambulances" a lot at the moment. They have a Skoda Estate though.

[peterprobe]

Haha sad but true. But calling a Dauphin a skoda estate is a bit harsh Bolkow yes. I think Dauphin is more in line with Ferrari........ fast but not that practical!!!. Yes I know you meant the car unit.

[Rowan J]

Confused

Very confusing for a newbie...

So how does it work with HEMS in the UK? Do the charities work independently and make their own tendering choices or are there regional/national health service contracts?

[Bertie Thruster]

So how does it work with HEMS in the UK? Do the charities work independently and make their own tendering choices or are there regional/national health service contracts?

Mostly explained here:

http://www.airambulanceassociation.co.uk/framework.pdf

[Barshifter]

For all you Dauphin-sceptics

Heres a quick tour of G-HEMS of The GNAA

BBC News - Tour around an air ambulance

[Bertie Thruster]

Why no 'shock in flight' capability for the Dauphin?

[[email protected]]

Bertie - how come they can't even spell foreword (they use foreward) properly - doesn't set a very good tone for the rest of the document

[Bertie Thruster]

NHS, Crab. Got 'wards' on the brain!

[Bertie Thruster]

Not GNAA. Just LNAA out and about today. Happy Christmas!

[Thud_and_Blunder]

Well, that trip takes care of next years LNAA Chrimbo card and a future PPRuNe calendar page in one go! Very nice - got the exposure/white balance just right in my opinion.

[Bertie Thruster]

Thud, it's difficult to go wrong with a good looking model!

But thanks for the approval