On 12/03/2013 11:41, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:13:50 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

The LAS HEMS helicopter is funded by Guvmint.

Why only the LAS HEMS?(*) AFAIK none of the other Air Ambulance services
get any assistance from HMG.

If you think about it they are always secondary units to arrive and
the paramedics that are already at the sceen have already done the
work to stabilise the patient before the helicopter is even scrambled.

The Denboi idiot strikes again. Helicopters have two useful functions,
1) being that they can get to remote or difficult areas faster and 2)
that they can get the patient to hospital faster.

Dennis lives in a world where everything is no more than 10 minutes from
everything else. Around here there is no paramedic in attendance until
the Air Ambulance arrives, first responders maybe but no paramedic. Not
unless you are preaperd to wait 40 odd minutes for an ambulance to drive
in...

(*) Stuid question 'cause it's London, and the politicios spend a lot of
time there.


Only partly funded by Guvmint, not fully.

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Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk