Health & Communities Committee Presentation by Ian Crowe, Trustee Michelle McDaid, Area Fundraising Manager
Health & Communities Committee Presentation by Ian Crowe, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Health & Communities Committee Presentation by Ian Crowe, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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
Your Giving Keeps Others Like
LIVING!
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
- ver 1200 taskings
15 Doctors, 8 Paramedics, 2 Pilots, 1 Engineer
HEMS AND OPERATIONS
1200
taskings
449
flying hours
50
Patient visits to base
25 min
average flight time To Derry/Strabane Availability rate of helicopter
99%
September‘19 busiest month
51
Types of Incident
- RTC – 50%
- Agriculture / farming – 10%
- Industrial & Workplace– 7%
- Other – for example falls, sporting
injuries, incidents at home
Air Ambulance Paramedic is at NIAS Control Centre
999
- 1. Immediate dispatch
- 2. Interrogation
- 3. Crew Request
How and When HEMS dispatched?
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
Why We need your support – Sustainability of AANI
- £2million each Year to run the Service = £5,500 per day
- 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
- 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
Derry City & Strabane District Council
- 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?