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Health & Communities Committee Presentation by Ian Crowe, Trustee Michelle McDaid, Area Fundraising Manager Your Giving Keeps Others Like LIVING! Air Ambulance HEMS service Partnership with Northern Ireland Ambulance Service and Air


  1. Health & Communities Committee Presentation by Ian Crowe, Trustee Michelle McDaid, Area Fundraising Manager

  2. Your Giving Keeps Others Like LIVING!

  3. Air Ambulance HEMS service • Partnership with Northern Ireland Ambulance Service and Air Ambulance Northern Ireland to delivery the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) • Trauma Service Provision provided 365 days of the year, 7 days a week, 12 hours per day • 1-2 taskings per day • EC135 Helicopter can travel anywhere in Northern Ireland in circa 25 minutes • This service brings the hospital to the patient • Already being tasked daily, on average with over 1200 taskings

  4. 15 Doctors, 8 Paramedics, 2 Pilots, 1 Engineer

  5. HEMS AND OPERATIONS 50 1200 449 Patient visits flying hours taskings to base Availability September‘19 25 min rate of helicopter busiest month 99% average 51 flight time To Derry/Strabane

  6. Types of Incident • RTC – 50% • Agriculture / farming – 10% • Industrial & Workplace – 7% • Other – for example falls, sporting injuries, incidents at home

  7. How and When HEMS dispatched ? Air Ambulance Paramedic is at NIAS Control Centre 999 1. Immediate dispatch 2. Interrogation 3. Crew Request

  8. Once tasked HEMS can deliver * Consultant based advice * Advanced analgesia * Pre-hospital surgery * Pre-hospital anaesthetic * Critical care intervention Bringing the hospital ED to the patient

  9. Why We need your support – Sustainability of • £2million each Year to run the Service = £5,500 per day AANI • Honeymoon period? • Next 3 years Critical – Development of AANI • New Base? • Introduction of new & improved Medical Interventions • Plea to Local Councils – 3 Year Funding Partnership

  10. Derry City & Strabane District Council • Approx.1 person transported to hospital every 2 weeks Tasked to: Newbuildings, Drumahoe, Foreglen, Campsie, Maydown, Castlederg, Clady, Strabane, Derry City-Buncrana Road, Sion Mills, Bready, Claudy, Magheramason – Each patient’s family & Community have engaged in Fundraising activities. • Local Trauma Centre 2 helipads – Altnagelvin Area Hospital • Regular Refuelling at CODA

  11. • Impact of your support: • Potentially Saving 30 lives in our Council area every year • Impact of Funding – Can we afford £1,000 per Life? • Sustaining The Service • Can you be the first Council in NI to Support?

  12. Any Questions?

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