On 11/03/2013 19:20, dennis@home wrote:
On 11/03/2013 11:38, Steve Firth wrote:
polygonum wrote:
On 11/03/2013 00:35, Steve Firth wrote:
"dennis@home" wrote:
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Do you want to quote stats that actually show how many lives are
saved by air ambulances?
There are plenty for the RNLI.

There are plenty for air ambulances. Only a ****ing moron would
attempt to
suggest by sneering that the stats are either hard to find or
non-existent.


The Air Ambulance Service Annual Situation Audit shows 24
helicopters, an
average of 857 lives saved per helicopter per year, so 20,568 lives per
year.

Are you planning to stop stealing oxygen anytime soon pennis?

I would further point out that there are only around ten or twelve
spinal
injury centres in the whole of the UK and Ireland. Availability of
helicopters to transfer patients from scenes of accidents, or other
units, to these specialist units is inherent in the justification for
having so few.

Also that as such things go the Air Ambulance is an efficient service
with
an average cost of £1000 for each life saved.

The RNLI rescues about 22 people per day and spends £140.5 million pa.
that's a cost of £17,500 per life saved.


However it costs a lot more to send a life boat out an a search and
rescue mission than it does to send a helicopter to a known location
where there is probably an ambulance with flashing blue lights on it
attending to the victim.

I would think that many lifeboat launches are rescue missions to a
"known" location, navigation systems being so good these days. If it's
going to be a full search, a helicopter or plane is going to cover a
much larger area and much faster.

SteveW