We have been the UK leader in air ambulance services for nearly 20 years and have served all the major assistance and repatriation companies, as well as the NHS. Our ambulance fleet is available 24 hours-a-day and is backed by a committed operations department and by medical support teams when required.

Our mission is to provide the highest quality care for patients requiring secondary  
medical transfer. Whenever possible, senior medical staff will liase directly with the
referring medical team to check all medical details. We make the correct decisions
at the right time to ensure patient safety.      

Medical Staff
All doctors are UK hospital specialists with post-graduate qualifications. In most cases
the doctor will be an anaesthetist with at least 3 years full-time experience in this field.
We believe that anaesthetists have the unique skills required to manage any in-flight   
eventuality and they are the most appropriate specialists for intensive care transfers.  
We have access to a large department of anaesthetics at a nearby major NHS teaching
hospital. Specialists in other branches of medicine such as cardiology, accident +        
emergency and trauma surgery may also be used where appropriate.

Nursing Staff
Our staff nurses are at least 5 years post-basic degree and will possess a higher nursing
qualification. All are trained in advance life support (ALS). We consider it is important to
match the skills of the nurse to the requirements of the transfer and we select our nursing
staff for each trip accordingly. All nurses have undergone instruction concerning the demands of the aircraft environment.

Equipment
AirMed has invested in comprehensive monitoring and life-support equipment to meet
the needs of high dependency and routine intensive care patients. Our standards are
consistent with the guidelines set by the Intensive Care Society (Guidelines for the transfer
of the critically ill adult, 2002).

Record keeping and audit
AirMed are fully integrated with the NHS Thames Valley Critical Care Network (CCN).
All patient observations and clinical notes are recorded on the CCN report form. This
form provides patient information at handover, and a copy is also returned to the CCN.
This is the basis for audit and quality control. We are able to benchmark our performance
against other NHS intensive care units within our region. We encourage incident reporting
and we ensure patient safety is our main concern.
                                                        
Often airborne in under an hour for emergencies, our air ambulance fleet is fully equipped and approved to Medivac standards:

PA42-720 Piper Cheyenne IIIA - faster and larger than the IIXL's, the pressurised turbo prop Cheyenne IIIA is capable for those longer repatriations into Europe and Northern Africa. The longer cabin is capable of carrying one stretcher patient plus four seats for medics/relatives. It has an integrated single and double LifePort System to facilitate stretcher loading. View aircraft.

PA31T2 Piper Cheyenne IIXL's - fast and comfortable turboprop air ambulances with a range of over 1,000 miles. Can carry one stretcher plus three medics / relatives. It Has an integrated LifePort system to facilitate stretcher loading. View aircraft.

Piper Chieftains - spacious air ambulances offering comfortable transport for one stretcher patient and up to four relatives or medics, or a double stretcher plus two seated passengers/medics. A large rear door makes stretcher loading easy. It has an integrated LifePort system to facilitate stretcher loading. View aircraft.

Piper Senecas - can carry the patient, medic and one additional passenger or attendant. Benefits from easy loading of stretchers, and can operate into small grass airfields to minimise ground journeys. View aircraft.

We also handle other medical emergency flights including delivery of organs for transplant and we fly transplant teams to their destinations.

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