Wiltshire Air Ambulance more woes.

[EESDL]

Increased demand for WAA ....
WAA - please please please tone down the embarrassing PR rubbish you are churning out.
Who are you trying to fool?
Wishing the unit every success for the future but making headlines which indicates that your helicopter has seen increased demand does you no credit when you consider that 75% of callouts were by road.........

Wiltshire Air Ambulance experiences increased demand in 2019

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They should change their name to Wiltshire Ambulance...

[Hedski]

Have to love that PR spin in private eye. WAA were offered the use of an extant Uk B429 AOC to facilitate their operations to continue. They instead refused this and leased at greater cost an MD902 from an outside contractor. The pure brass neck to blame the CAA for their self imposed grounding is astonishing. But I suppose that’s the type of person that takes charity money for themselves as a 6 digit sum. Well all HEMS charities have that problem and each has its own forms of corruption. Either way is the AOC issue just spin or full bore lies?

[Dai Whirlybird]

Originally Posted by EESDL

...... making headlines which indicates that your helicopter has seen increased demand does you no credit when you consider that 75% of callouts were by road.........

Paradoxically, this kind of PR spin could lead to a suggestion that... the Ambulance Service's tasking process - when relieved of the "aircraft tasking criteria" due to no aircraft availability and road response only, is at liberty to make more frequent use of the Paramedics (and more specifically their elevated skill-set) that are seconded to the Air Ambulance.

When looked at from the punter's perspective it could be argued that they're generally getting more frequent access to the Critical Care Paramedics when the aircraft is unavailable.

[homonculus]

Except that NHS ambulance services normally operate their own rapid response vehicles crewed with paramedics or prehospital care practitioners. Unless Wiltshire NHS Ambulance Trust is unusual, the NHS is already providing this service. It may be that the air ambulance charity provides a doctor some or all of the time, but he/she must be the most expensive doctor on the planet at these prices!!! Several NHS ambulance trusts also have doctors in some rapid response vehicles where the cost is little more than the doctor's salary.....

Which leads me to ask exactly what has this charity been adding to patient care.....

[Professor Bublinsky]

All their woes were self-induced.